A single line often inverts meaning once you see what it
answers, so neighbouring messages are always shown.
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I would love to see the full submission history for these entries - Andrew, dig a little :wink:
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Eddie, it's your paper... :wink: https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(20)30251-8/fulltext I assume this is the same Weijun Chen who's the submitter of the data and is from BGI.
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He'd know what's up with that early creation date.
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If you had some suspected cases of novel coronavirus, Weijun would be the kind of guy you'd contact - he's been developing diagnostics for SARS too, so would make sense. I think there's probably an earlier timeline here that they may have been obscuring a little - which, honestly, wouldn't surprise me that much.
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2020-10-30 16:22
Edward C. Holmes
Yes, I looked at the Lancet paper straight away. I've already contacted Weifeng. If that fails I'll contact Weijun Chen.
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The point is who is the 'you' in your question? Who did they work for? A doctor in Wuhan? What people would do isrun the standard panel of tests and if they failed perhaps contact a sequencing company like BGI. But if that were the case why did they not submit samples until 2 weeks later? My guess is that they were created for something else and then backfilled.
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Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what they say - also, this is from the paper about the metadata [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2020-10-30 at 4.08.13 PM.png]
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"My guess is that they were created for something else and then backfilled" Yeah, that's my suspicion too - although that _is_ a little unsual.
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But I think the other option is even more unusual...but I'm as keen to find out as you! At the very least we need acompelling answer for the trolls who are about to descend upon us...