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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.337 [SLACK_000551] · slack_pm:msg:03545

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"FUNGFLUPATENTPENDING"

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2020-12-21 16:13 Andrew Rambaut open

We should offer to go do it.
2020-12-21 16:13 Kristian G. Andersen open

YES - we can collect our fat checks at the same time!
2020-12-21 16:14 Kristian G. Andersen open

One question I'd ask - "Since you faked RaTG13, why haven't you faked a closely related ancestral strain from a random intermediate host?"
2020-12-21 16:17 Andrew Rambaut open

Has anyone tried translating it out of frame? Perhaps it says "MADEINCHINA"?
2020-12-21 16:20 Edward C. Holmes

"FUNGFLUPATENTPENDING"
2020-12-21 16:20 Andrew Rambaut open

```Sars-Cov-2, the authors concluded, was likely to have gained its unique efficiency through a long, undetected period of circulation in humans or animals of a natural and milder precursor virus that eventually evolved into thepotent, deadly form first detected in Wuhan in 2019.```Eh?
2020-12-21 16:21 Andrew Rambaut open

5.1 million reads though
2020-12-21 16:49 Edward C. Holmes open

Vince is loosing the plot: http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/
2020-12-21 16:54 Kristian G. Andersen open

I can't stand to listen to him - he's disqualified from all further discussions (the worst thing is - he NEVER listens toANYBODY. It's all about him and only about him - and only he knows). He got Ebola wrong, he got Zika wrong, and he's now once again getting another virus wrong.I have no idea what he actually knows about - because even his virology knowledge (let alone genomics/epi/immunology, etc) is shockingly poor.