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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.245 · slack_pm:msg:02550

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Date
2020-10-30 17:09 (hour precision)
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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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.

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  1. 2020-10-30 17:06 Edward C. Holmes open
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  2. 2020-10-30 17:06 Edward C. Holmes open
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  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. 2020-10-30 17:09 Edward C. Holmes
    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.
  6. 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:
  7. 2020-10-30 17:09 Edward C. Holmes open
    On it.
  8. 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:)
  9. 2020-10-30 17:09 Edward C. Holmes open
    Totally!

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