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1. 2020-10-01 20:23 Edward C. Holmes open
   That's the original sequencing report from mid-late December where the commercial company first found reads for 'SARS'.
2. 2020-10-01 20:24 Edward C. Holmes open
   59 reads and spent everyone into major panic.
3. 2020-10-01 20:26 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Ah, interesting. And this didn't get to George? I mean - 59 SARS reads is a pretty red flag. Mid December?
4. 2020-10-01 20:27 Edward C. Holmes open
   I'll try to get you the exact date. George bloody knew!!!
5. 2020-10-01 20:28 Kristian G. Andersen
   Yeah, I have a REALLY hard time seeing how George wouldn't have known (I think it was the interview with Zhang where it was mentioned? And btw - Zhang = Times 100, which is pretty cool!)
6. 2020-10-01 20:31 Edward C. Holmes open
   He bloody knew. No doubt. Yes, I was the go-between with TIME and Zhang. I told him not to do it - I thought there might be trouble - but his ego got the better of him.
7. 2020-10-01 20:35 Edward C. Holmes open
   Zhang has now been booted out of China CDC and is now full-time in Shanghai. George is absolutely furious with him for stealing his glory. At the end of the day, it's allo about ego.
8. 2020-10-01 20:38 Edward C. Holmes open
   The other thing is that sequencing report I sent was from WeChat. This chat was all over social media in China. And yet there is no chat about nothing from WIV.
9. 2020-10-01 20:41 Edward C. Holmes open
   Oh, and obviously, our patient was sequenced in Shanghai (and was a fish market worker). So, clearly sequencing contamination at WIV.

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