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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.335 [SLACK_000549] · slack_pm:msg:03527

Date: 2020-12-21 14:29
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Biosafety and biosecurity Masks, lockdowns and NPIs

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https://www.propublica.org/article/here-are-six-accidents-unc-researchers-had-with-lab-created-coronaviruses"*April2020*: A UNC scientist underwent 14 days of self-quarantine at home after a mouse bite caused potential exposureto a strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, that had been adapted for growth in mice. The incidentin a biosafety level 3 lab happened when a researcher attempted to read the ID number on a tag on a mouse's ear.The mouse flipped over in the researcher's hand and bit an index finger through two layers of gloves. It did not appear to break the researcher's skin, but UNC told NIH in its reports that "given the uncertainty surrounding the exposure, we are treating this as a medium/high risk exposure." The researcher was instructed to self-quarantine and do twice-daily temperature checks. UNC also notified the local Health Department. No further information about the worker's health was included in the incident reports."

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news https://www.propublica.org/article/here-are-six-accidents-unc-researchers-had-with-lab-created-coronaviruses

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https://www.propublica.org/article/here-are-six-accidents-unc-researchers-had-with-lab-created-coronaviruses"April2020: A UNC scientist underwent 14 days of self-quarantine at home after a mouse bite caused potential exposureto a strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, that had been adapted for growth in mice.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts
It did not appear to break the researcher's skin, but UNC told NIH in its reports that "given the uncertainty surrounding the exposure, we are treating this as a medium/high risk exposure." The researcher was instructed to self-quarantine and do twice-daily temperature checks.	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	reports

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It did not appear to break the researcher's skin, but UNC told NIH in its reports that "given the uncertainty surrounding the exposure, we are treating this as a medium/high risk exposure." The researcher was instructed to self-quarantine and do twice-daily temperature checks.

quoted / not their view

quoted_external inside quotation marks

reports

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2020-12-21 14:23 Kristian G. Andersen open

There you go. It's time we go back to Andrew's London sewage theory.
2020-12-21 14:26 Kristian G. Andersen open

@Andrew Rambaut - do you have a good reference for the best "Wales" lineages?
2020-12-21 14:26 Andrew Rambaut open

You mean what muts it has?
2020-12-21 14:27 Kristian G. Andersen open

A GISAID ID? Creating an alignment for Andrew Ward so he can get a cryo guy on it and he wanted a prioritized listof sequences
2020-12-21 14:29 Robert F. Garry

https://www.propublica.org/article/here-are-six-accidents-unc-researchers-had-with-lab-created-coronaviruses"*April2020*: A UNC scientist underwent 14 days of self-quarantine at home after a mouse bite caused potential exposureto a strain of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, that had been adapted for growth in mice. The incidentin a biosafety level 3 lab happened when a researcher attempted to read the ID number on a tag on a mouse's ear.The mouse flipped over in the researcher's hand and bit an index finger through two layers of gloves. It did not appear to break the researcher's skin, but UNC told NIH in its reports that "given the uncertainty surrounding the exposure, we are treating this as a medium/high risk exposure." The researcher was instructed to self-quarantine and do twice-daily temperature checks. UNC also notified the local Health Department. No further information about the worker's health was included in the incident reports."
2020-12-21 14:30 Andrew Rambaut open

Very confusingly (and coincidentally) it is lineage B.1.1.70
2020-12-21 14:30 Andrew Rambaut open

Here are all the mutations from Wuhan: Spike D614G, Spike N501Y, N G204R, N Q9H, N R203K, NS3 Y156C, NS7a T14I, NSP3 H1539Y, NSP3 S126L, NSP5 G71S, NSP5 P132L, NSP12 P323L, NSP15 A217V, NSP15 M271I, NSP15 T33I
2020-12-21 14:30 Andrew Rambaut open

EPI_ISL_710967
2020-12-21 14:30 Kristian G. Andersen open

Awesome - thanks

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