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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.244 [SLACK_000458] · slack_pm:msg:02547

Page text: p.244 · original PDF

Date
2020-10-30 17:06
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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  1. 2020-10-30 16:46 Kristian G. Andersen open
    ... and just so we have the paper saved here on Slack... [shared file(s): COVID Pandemic Began at PLA Hospital inWuhan.pdf]
  2. 2020-10-30 16:46 Edward C. Holmes open
    I've had quite a few preorders for that shirt!!
  3. 2020-10-30 17:05 Edward C. Holmes open
    The BGI people first made their data entry in China on Dec. 26th:
  4. 2020-10-30 17:06 Edward C. Holmes open
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  5. 2020-10-30 17:06 Edward C. Holmes
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  6. 2020-10-30 17:07 Edward C. Holmes open
    This time-line makes sense but it does show that George Gao must have known about it before Dec. 30!! I never believed that one for a second.
  7. 2020-10-30 17:09 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, this totally makes sense given the timeline. And yeah - George must have known. The ENA entries must have been created for some other purpose and backfilled. But it _is_ weird - because they only created those four on ENA and then nothing for a few weeks. SLACK_000459
  8. 2020-10-30 17:09 Edward C. Holmes open
    We'll get to the bottom of it. That also provided me with Weijun Chen's email address so I'm just contacting him now.
  9. 2020-10-30 17:09 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Okay, cool - I'm sure they're going to have a totally mundane explanation - like why RaTG13 was named that way cwink:

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