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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.258 [SLACK_000472] · slack_pm:msg:02696

Date: 2020-11-14 15:03
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes

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"Data shows that the higher spice-intake countries also have higher recovery rate and lower-mortality than the lowerspice-intake individuals, presumably due to the antibody production.""In contrast, frameshift-type mutation (which tends to have deleterious effect in the protein 3D structure)predominates in the higher spice-intake individuals resulting in higher-recovery / lower-mortality rate, presumably due to attenuated (weaker) coronavirus."

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2020-11-14 14:49 Edward C. Holmes open

Yes, it's amazing that people think they are qualified to hold forth. Look at Relman in PNAS.
2020-11-14 15:03 Edward C. Holmes open

Just screened and rejected a corker from bioRixv - "Genomic variants at the Spike regions of SARS-CoV-2 provide insights on the mortality of population: comparative study with higher spice-intake countries". Contains the following:
2020-11-14 15:03 Edward C. Holmes

"Data shows that the higher spice-intake countries also have higher recovery rate and lower-mortality than the lowerspice-intake individuals, presumably due to the antibody production.""In contrast, frameshift-type mutation (which tends to have deleterious effect in the protein 3D structure)predominates in the higher spice-intake individuals resulting in higher-recovery / lower-mortality rate, presumably due to attenuated (weaker) coronavirus."

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