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Date
2020-11-21 04:25
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker
Andrew Rambaut
Topics
Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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I jotted down some scribbled notes I had been making about why SC2 is likely natural origins: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lPzBuXW0BY0okNljUBjmOSzDvwMsiW_UGMHYcyCWD4E/edit Basically it comes down to the only lab-escape scenario that could give you SC2 is if SC2 was in the lab and then escaped. And this is a very-very-specific version of all the other (infinitely more numerous) paths from bats->humans.

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I jotted down some scribbled notes I had been making about why SC2 is likely natural origins: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lPzBuXW0BY0okNljUBjmOSzDvwMsiW_UGMHYcyCWD4E/edit Basically it comes down to the only lab-escape scenario that could give you SC2 is if SC2 was in the lab and then escaped. needs context uncertain explicit hedge asserts

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  1. 2020-11-21 04:25 Andrew Rambaut
    I jotted down some scribbled notes I had been making about why SC2 is likely natural origins: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lPzBuXW0BY0okNljUBjmOSzDvwMsiW_UGMHYcyCWD4E/edit Basically it comes down to the only lab-escape scenario that could give you SC2 is if SC2 was in the lab and then escaped. And this is a very-very-specific version of all the other (infinitely more numerous) paths from bats->humans.

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