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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.197 [SLACK_000411] · slack_pm:msg:02039

Date: 2020-10-01 19:48
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recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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This looks weird: https://osf.io/s4td6/ There was a simultaneous outbreak of the zoonotic Nipah henipavirus in Wuhan - 4 out of 5 patients have the virus in Jinyintan Hospital , along with SARS-Cov2, in their metagenome - which seems to have resolved by itself *AUTHORS* Sandeep Chakraborty

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2020-10-01 19:39 Kristian G. Andersen open

Eddie Holmes is no longer my friend on Twitter :crying_cat_face: - Eddie, I take this as my queue to shut up... :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:. In better news - we can only hope... [pun intended] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/01/us/trump-vs-biden?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtyp e=Homepage#hope-hicks-coronavirus
2020-10-01 19:43 Kristian G. Andersen open

Pretty interesting genomic report from New Zealand (confidential for now, I assume) that looks well-reasoned: https://nextstrain.org/community/narratives/ESR-NZ/GenomicsNarrativeSARSCoV2/2020-10-01
2020-10-01 19:48 Robert F. Garry

This looks weird: https://osf.io/s4td6/ There was a simultaneous outbreak of the zoonotic Nipah henipavirus in Wuhan - 4 out of 5 patients have the virus in Jinyintan Hospital , along with SARS-Cov2, in their metagenome - which seems to have resolved by itself *AUTHORS* Sandeep Chakraborty
2020-10-01 19:50 Robert F. Garry open

But yes if not prayers we at least have hope! Either he gets it or a HCQ/Azithromycin overdose.
2020-10-01 19:52 Kristian G. Andersen open

Hmmmm that IS weird. Presumably though, if these reads are real surely they must be contamination from other sequencing experiments at WIV.
2020-10-01 19:53 Kristian G. Andersen open

E.g., I know people found plenty of evidence of Lassa in GTEx individuals from the Broad... Obviously there was nooutbreak of Lassa in Boston - just the Broad doing its thing.
2020-10-01 19:59 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah, I'm pretty sure these are contaminants - you can see the reads via the raw SRA: https://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/?run=SRR11092059 https://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/?run=SRR11092060 https://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/?run=SRR11092061 https://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/?run=SRR11092062 Many other viruses in there too

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