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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.296 [SLACK_000510] · slack_pm:msg:03079

Date: 2020-12-06 08:53
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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Perfect example of how a conspiratorial mind works. Fascinating. It's pretty clear they didn't bring the A-team in for this.

In context

A single line often inverts meaning once you see what it answers, so neighbouring messages are always shown.

2020-12-06 07:42 Robert F. Garry open

Which explains how this got written: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7435492/
2020-12-06 07:45 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yup, all that I found too. Interesting couple - I'm sure dad must be proud.
2020-12-06 08:11 Robert F. Garry open

https://mygenomix.medium.com/the-origin-of-sars-cov-2-is-a-riddle-meet-the-twitter-detectives-who-aim-to-solve-it-5050216fd279
2020-12-06 08:11 Robert F. Garry open

It's back
2020-12-06 08:53 Kristian G. Andersen

Perfect example of how a conspiratorial mind works. Fascinating. It's pretty clear they didn't bring the A-team in for this.
2020-12-06 09:33 Kristian G. Andersen open

Here's the NYT article about China's cover up - it's a very good one, but nothing new: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/06/world/asia/china-covid-origin-falsehoods.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
2020-12-06 09:52 Andrew Rambaut open

I was just taking a closer look at the rooting of the pandemic. Our lineage A is definitely 2 nucleotides (1 amino acid) closer to RaTG13 than lineage B (Wuhan-Hu-1). But interestingly WA1 is one nucleotide closer still (out of a1150-odd, of course). It looks like the some of lineage A had a chance reversion (synonymous). But may be the cause of mis-rooting.
2020-12-06 09:54 Kristian G. Andersen open

In what sites? Lemme check the bam file to see how confident those RaTG13 calls are in those positions
2020-12-06 09:55 Kristian G. Andersen open

There are some low-coverage regions in that genome where you have ambiguous calls

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