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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.153 [SLACK_000367] · slack_pm:msg:01570

Date: 2020-09-06 16:25
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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yes - great quote! Agree - "space would be the next thing on the list" - what else? Love the fact that the first*Keyword is:* Diseases from space... I do think to be even more "convincing" the theory needs to account for "who"is loading these comets with these near perfect pathogens.

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2020-09-06 16:14 Robert F. Garry open

"blood boil as it puts the communities they are in at risk" - Agree - we'll see - I think you just made a testable hypothesis.
2020-09-06 16:25 Robert F. Garry

yes - great quote! Agree - "space would be the next thing on the list" - what else? Love the fact that the first*Keyword is:* Diseases from space... I do think to be even more "convincing" the theory needs to account for "who"is loading these comets with these near perfect pathogens.
2020-09-06 16:47 Edward C. Holmes open

Is this a thing? A journo just sent it to me: [shared file(s): PIIS2211124720311748.pdf]
2020-09-06 16:57 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yup, common sneaky anti-virus mechanism - it appears SARS2 might be especially good at doing this.
2020-09-06 17:01 Edward C. Holmes open

What about the natural variant with a longer ORF?
2020-09-06 17:02 Edward C. Holmes open

Do we know how common this? I've not read the paper I should say.

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