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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.385 [SLACK_000599] · slack_pm:msg:04007

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Date
2021-01-11 15:59
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry

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Yeah - it's all going to shit...

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  1. 2021-01-11 15:52 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Maybe together with Doug and Nelly they're up to no good.
  2. 2021-01-11 15:52 Robert F. Garry open
    I think Doug did it...or at least maybe started the process -that is of course after the FCS inserted itself.
  3. 2021-01-11 15:52 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Let's call that initial event Furio
  4. 2021-01-11 15:53 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Furio > Hugo > Doug > Nelly > Eeek, Pooh. I see a pattern emerging.
  5. 2021-01-11 15:59 Robert F. Garry
    Yeah - it's all going to shit...
  6. 2021-01-11 16:01 Edward C. Holmes open
    I don't think we have any info from previous immunocompromised cases (noros, flu) for such large-scale convergent evolution. Indeed, while I can see immunocompromised cases leading to lots of mutations, lots of the SAME mutations appearing multiple times does smell of very strong and directed selection.
  7. 2021-01-11 16:09 Andrew Rambaut open
    Just don't know - so much other stuff presumably hitchiking - I just don't think that likely happens via a progressionof individual mutations with bottlenecking transmission.
  8. 2021-01-11 16:11 Andrew Rambaut open
    We are seeing all these mutations cropping up individually many times. But when they appear in combination now we also get 15 other mutations along side
  9. 2021-01-11 16:14 Edward C. Holmes open
    I assume there's no recombination involved?

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