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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.131 [SLACK_000345] · slack_pm:msg:01344

Date: 2020-08-08 06:12
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker: Andrew Rambaut
Topics: Therapeutics and treatments

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This obsession with hydroxychloroquine is bonkers. Is it all just trying to distort reality so Trump turns out to be right?Of all the things he has put out it is not one that people were particularly fussed about.

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This obsession with hydroxychloroquine is bonkers.	needs context	speaker_own	asserts

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This obsession with hydroxychloroquine is bonkers.

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2020-08-08 06:02 Robert F. Garry open

"how _did_ that get through?" Bad editoring - obviously. . I did manage to convince the journal to take it down inabout 24 hours. "looking forward to the memoirs" I'm still working on the title....
2020-08-08 06:07 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fauci-quote-hydroxychloroquine/ In-box is filling up with VJ "stuff."
2020-08-08 06:12 Andrew Rambaut

This obsession with hydroxychloroquine is bonkers. Is it all just trying to distort reality so Trump turns out to be right?Of all the things he has put out it is not one that people were particularly fussed about.
2020-08-08 06:51 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yup, it's all about Trump wanting to be right - no matter the consequences. If that involves completely bending the truth, so be it.It's unreal.

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