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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.243 [SLACK_000457] · slack_pm:msg:02531

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Date
2020-10-30 16:28
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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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...

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  1. 2020-10-30 16:22 Edward C. Holmes open
    Yes, I looked at the Lancet paper straight away. I've already contacted Weifeng. If that fails I'll contact Weijun Chen.
  2. 2020-10-30 16:25 Edward C. Holmes open
    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.
  3. 2020-10-30 16:25 Kristian G. Andersen open
    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]
  4. 2020-10-30 16:26 Kristian G. Andersen open
    "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.
  5. 2020-10-30 16:28 Edward C. Holmes
    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...
  6. 2020-10-30 16:30 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, once the tinfoil hats get hold of this. :boom:
  7. 2020-10-30 16:31 Edward C. Holmes open
    But it also doesn't fit the WIV narrative as they don't do anything with the BGI.
  8. 2020-10-30 16:33 Edward C. Holmes open
    And the BGI are not even in Wuhan.
  9. 2020-10-30 16:33 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, I don't really see how any of this fits with WIV (other than it being close to PLA). It fits better with the Huanan market (since the whole "Line 2" narrative isn't all that stupid)

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