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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.352 [SLACK_000566] · slack_pm:msg:03691

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Date
2021-01-02 12:26
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker
Andrew Rambaut

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Both lineages clearly do stand out. Sure there are a handful of individual sequences that stick out as much but Isuspect most of these are from those immunocompromised patient papers like the one in NEJM

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  1. 2021-01-02 12:25 Andrew Rambaut open
    He is just trying to squirm out of the hole he dug himself.
  2. 2021-01-02 12:26 Andrew Rambaut
    Both lineages clearly do stand out. Sure there are a handful of individual sequences that stick out as much but Isuspect most of these are from those immunocompromised patient papers like the one in NEJM
  3. 2021-01-02 12:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Sometimes it's so much easier to just say "shit, I was wrong", instead of proving that you're ignorant to basic phylogenetics and epi. It's a little shocking to be honest - I mean, the guy's been writing papers on this stuff...
  4. 2021-01-02 12:37 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Spoke to the Danes this morning and saw some additional data not yet public - essentially the same picture as theUK, so this looks to be real-real. @Andrew Rambaut - they mentioned that the UK had tested the virus against convalescent plasma and there was_no_ effect on neutralization? I'm not quite sure that has actually been done yet - do you know?
  5. 2021-01-02 12:41 Andrew Rambaut open
    I have not heard the neutralization information yet - but I have been off the daily calls. I guess this was done in PHEColindale so they may have talked to Denmark directly.
  6. 2021-01-02 12:41 Andrew Rambaut open
    Just been chatting with Mads and have offered to help them set up a simple BEAST run to estimate the growth rate for the initial stages. Might be a bit too little data just now.

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