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The response to seeing 12 patients with 4 spike mutations perhaps was a bit rash...

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2020-12-10 07:11 Robert F. Garry open

:scream_cat:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22221751.2020.1817796# [shared file(s): image.png]
2020-12-10 07:15 Robert F. Garry open

Gotta love the graphical abstract!
2020-12-10 07:19 Kristian G. Andersen open

Any fur farming around there?
2020-12-10 07:25 Andrew Rambaut open

This is not going well... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/10/decomposing-mink-in-denmark-may-have-contaminated-groundwa ter
2020-12-10 07:26 Andrew Rambaut

The response to seeing 12 patients with 4 spike mutations perhaps was a bit rash...
2020-12-10 07:27 Andrew Rambaut open

And that is a pretty grim picture
2020-12-10 07:43 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah, they really didn't handle that well... That said, the culling was absolutely the right thing to do IMO.
2020-12-10 07:46 Andrew Rambaut open

I do agree. But using the 'scary' spike mutation as a reason was not good.
2020-12-10 07:46 Andrew Rambaut open

But perhaps it was necessary to get it done politically