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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.283 [SLACK_000497] · slack_pm:msg:02938

Date: 2020-11-27 16:40
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes
Topics: Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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Confidential from Weifeng: "By the way, we just identified a number of SARS-CoV-2 like CoVs. One is ~93% similarto SARS-CoV-2 and some of them are related to pangolin-derived CoVs. We are still working on this project tovalidate them. It would likely take approximately 4~5 weeks to finish this project. Anyway, I will keep you updated."

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One is ~93% similarto SARS-CoV-2 and some of them are related to pangolin-derived CoVs.	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	asserts

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One is ~93% similarto SARS-CoV-2 and some of them are related to pangolin-derived CoVs.

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2020-11-27 16:40 Edward C. Holmes

Confidential from Weifeng: "By the way, we just identified a number of SARS-CoV-2 like CoVs. One is ~93% similarto SARS-CoV-2 and some of them are related to pangolin-derived CoVs. We are still working on this project tovalidate them. It would likely take approximately 4~5 weeks to finish this project. Anyway, I will keep you updated."
2020-11-27 17:08 Edward C. Holmes open

These are bat samples.
2020-11-27 17:16 Kristian G. Andersen open

Very interesting!

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