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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.278 [SLACK_000492] · slack_pm:msg:02890

Date: 2020-11-24 17:22
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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I'm not quite sure what that SCMP article is about, but hey... One thing though - "In Tuesday's update, Shi said she and her team collected 13 serum samples from four miners who came down with a mystery respiratory disease after clearing bat faeces in a copper mine in Yunnan province inApril 2012."They didn't find SARS-CoV-2 in these samples, but they never would even if they were infected by SARS-CoV-2 -you can't find the virus in the blood/serum/plasma, so this doesn't really tell us much....

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2020-11-24 17:22 Kristian G. Andersen

I'm not quite sure what that SCMP article is about, but hey... One thing though - "In Tuesday's update, Shi said she and her team collected 13 serum samples from four miners who came down with a mystery respiratory disease after clearing bat faeces in a copper mine in Yunnan province inApril 2012."They didn't find SARS-CoV-2 in these samples, but they never would even if they were infected by SARS-CoV-2 -you can't find the virus in the blood/serum/plasma, so this doesn't really tell us much....
2020-11-24 17:44 Kristian G. Andersen open

@Andrew Rambaut - how the fuck did this get through? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.17.386714v1
2020-11-24 18:03 Edward C. Holmes open

The clock is ticking for the first set of shit headlines...
2020-11-24 18:05 Kristian G. Andersen open

This one is a little too ridiculous (but look - Harvard!), so I'm not sure it'll get picked up. We'll just point to Andrew's take-down - thanks Andrew!
2020-11-24 18:06 Edward C. Holmes open

Just seen Andrew's rebuttal. Great!! The journos will love this - Harvard death mutations.

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