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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.361 [SLACK_000575] · slack_pm:msg:03769

Date: 2021-01-05 23:43
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes
Topics: Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration

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Glad Jessie agrees that RaTG13 is not the direct ancestor. That's a very important point that rules out most of the conspiracy theories. He suggests there's another unsequenced virus that's the source of SARS-CoV-2. Obviously impossible to rule that out, but Shi sequenced RaTG13 years ago in the guise of RaTG13 in the guise ofBtCoV/4991. Why wouldn't Shi have published the sequences of any viruses from that cave at that earlier time? Why only BtCoV/4991 which then later turns out to be the closest relative? And if these unsequenced viruses that are true of cause SARS-CoV-2 exist in the WIV then they also exist in far less regulated environments in caves inYunnan province.

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And if these unsequenced viruses that are true of cause SARS-CoV-2 exist in the WIV then they also exist in far less regulated environments in caves inYunnan province.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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And if these unsequenced viruses that are true of cause SARS-CoV-2 exist in the WIV then they also exist in far less regulated environments in caves inYunnan province.

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2021-01-05 22:52 Kristian G. Andersen open

https://twitter.com/Rossana38510044/status/1346687589647081473?s=20
2021-01-05 23:08 Edward C. Holmes open

I saw. No idea what subsequent work he is talking about.
2021-01-05 23:43 Edward C. Holmes

Glad Jessie agrees that RaTG13 is not the direct ancestor. That's a very important point that rules out most of the conspiracy theories. He suggests there's another unsequenced virus that's the source of SARS-CoV-2. Obviously impossible to rule that out, but Shi sequenced RaTG13 years ago in the guise of RaTG13 in the guise ofBtCoV/4991. Why wouldn't Shi have published the sequences of any viruses from that cave at that earlier time? Why only BtCoV/4991 which then later turns out to be the closest relative? And if these unsequenced viruses that are true of cause SARS-CoV-2 exist in the WIV then they also exist in far less regulated environments in caves inYunnan province.

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