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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.152 [SLACK_000366] · slack_pm:msg:01555

Date: 2020-09-01 14:36
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker: Andrew Rambaut
Topics: China relations and data access

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But in this case it smells fishy. I don't believe there was enough SC2 around in Beijing for 6 out of their 273 patients even to have multiple exposures of radically different viruses, let alone actually become infected.

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I don't believe there was enough SC2 around in Beijing for 6 out of their 273 patients even to have multiple exposures of radically different viruses, let alone actually become infected.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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I don't believe there was enough SC2 around in Beijing for 6 out of their 273 patients even to have multiple exposures of radically different viruses, let alone actually become infected.

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2020-09-01 14:21 Edward C. Holmes open

Not entirely unexpected given some of the common cold coronas. The classic literature (by Phil Minor) was suggesting multiple infection episodes within a year.
2020-09-01 14:36 Andrew Rambaut

But in this case it smells fishy. I don't believe there was enough SC2 around in Beijing for 6 out of their 273 patients even to have multiple exposures of radically different viruses, let alone actually become infected.
2020-09-01 14:40 Edward C. Holmes open

Perhaps, but the official numbers from China are clearly large underestimates.
2020-09-01 14:41 Andrew Rambaut open

I agree but even so. One of the 6 is 2 years old.
2020-09-01 14:42 Andrew Rambaut open

(but I don't know how I know that because I haven't seen the paper)
2020-09-01 14:42 Edward C. Holmes open

Excellent educated guess.

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