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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.381 [SLACK_000595] · slack_pm:msg:03965

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Date
2021-01-11 15:08
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker
Andrew Rambaut

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Johnson and Johnson in Brazil as well - didn't they suspend it because of mystery illness?

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  1. 2021-01-11 15:06 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Bloody hell
  2. 2021-01-11 15:07 Edward C. Holmes open
    WTF.
  3. 2021-01-11 15:08 Andrew Rambaut open
    Just bonkers
  4. 2021-01-11 15:08 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Where did they do the AZN trials again?
  5. 2021-01-11 15:08 Andrew Rambaut
    Johnson and Johnson in Brazil as well - didn't they suspend it because of mystery illness?
  6. 2021-01-11 15:09 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yup
  7. 2021-01-11 15:09 Edward C. Holmes open
    I'm really not sure I believe the chronic theory any more...once may be, but three times? Chronic infections are a tiny fraction of the overall population.
  8. 2021-01-11 15:10 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Epizootic? Chronic infections? Immune escape? I think all in play.
  9. 2021-01-11 15:11 Kristian G. Andersen open
    > It seems like all of these lineages are converging to the same set of mutations And just to this part - it's strongly suggestive of some very pervasive selections pressure that's in common in all these places. Or, alternatively (but I think less likely) something like this: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30292-1?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Fl[...]vier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867417302921%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

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