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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.244-245 [SLACK_000458] · slack_pm:msg:02549

Date: 2020-10-30 17:09
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recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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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

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2020-10-30 17:05 Edward C. Holmes open

The BGI people first made their data entry in China on Dec. 26th:
2020-10-30 17:06 Edward C. Holmes open

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2020-10-30 17:06 Edward C. Holmes open

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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.
2020-10-30 17:09 Kristian G. Andersen

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
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.
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:
2020-10-30 17:09 Edward C. Holmes open

On it.
2020-10-30 17:09 Kristian G. Andersen open

(and one pretty critical thing against the bonkers theories in the paper - wouldn't WIV have been mentioned in theBioSample had the virus come from there....? :man-shrugging:)

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