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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.148 [SLACK_000362] · slack_pm:msg:01517

Date: 2020-08-27 02:05
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recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker: Andrew Rambaut

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Of course there was that crazy and well-entrenched dogma that flu pandemics occur every 11 years. Surprised no one suggested sunspot cycles then (or perhaps they did).

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2020-08-27 02:02 Andrew Rambaut open

@Kristian Andersen I agree. Although the much tighter timeline and some oddities in the genomes make me wonder if it could have been a co-infection with a one variant coming to the fore later on.
2020-08-27 02:05 Andrew Rambaut

Of course there was that crazy and well-entrenched dogma that flu pandemics occur every 11 years. Surprised no one suggested sunspot cycles then (or perhaps they did).
2020-08-27 02:06 Andrew Rambaut open

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291401/

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