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Date
2020-07-23 07:49
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry

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Wow - that Cell discussion with Gao and Shi should be fun...Not sure I can bring you over to the "dark side" and Ithink it is possible someone could die, but - yeah IMO - controlled trials better than "wild" trials given the circumstances.

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  1. 2020-07-23 07:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Might be worth tuning in for: https://twitter.com/CellPressNews/status/1286096187754459142?s=20 @Robert Garry, we need to discuss challenge trials at some point :wink:.
  2. 2020-07-23 07:49 Robert F. Garry
    Wow - that Cell discussion with Gao and Shi should be fun...Not sure I can bring you over to the "dark side" and Ithink it is possible someone could die, but - yeah IMO - controlled trials better than "wild" trials given the circumstances.
  3. 2020-07-23 07:56 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, should be interesting. George popped up on a NASEM meeting last week and it was pretty interesting to get his take. A little different than here in the US... I say we just make the whole of Florida a challenge trial :wink:
  4. 2020-07-23 08:14 Andrew Rambaut open
    I am talking to Wellcome Vaccines dept tomorrow about challenge trials. They are considering which stocks to manufacture. I am not that sure what to tell them other than a basal D614G.
  5. 2020-07-23 08:44 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, NIAID asked us about getting an isolate from a "mild infection"... Well, mild, severe, moderate, chances are they're all the same. I agree on getting something as basal on the tree as possible (that's assuming D614G _does not_ show resistance to neutralization - which is a real concern (e.g., GP A82V in Ebola does that).
  6. 2020-07-23 08:45 Andrew Rambaut open
    Jeremy's preprint suggests it is sensitive to ABs

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