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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.457 [SLACK_000671] · slack_pm:msg:04746

Date: 2021-01-27 01:41
Type: chat message · slack
mentioned: Kristian G. Andersen
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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Yes Billy, Yuri and the DRASTIC crowd going nuts...as @Kristian Andersen said data/smata they'll just move the goalposts.

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2021-01-27 01:11 Robert F. Garry open

Good to know! Impressive nonetheless - can you ask him what secondary reagent he used for the pango elisa? We've been considering doing it too in Africa but you cant buy anti- pango IgG. Maybe cat, dog or ferret???
2021-01-27 01:13 Robert F. Garry open

THe other option is a blockade of binding assay (BOB!) but not as satisfying.
2021-01-27 01:29 Edward C. Holmes open

I'll see what I can find out. My mate at CNN just told that some people - I wonder who - are suggesting that cambobat spike is the result of GoF experiment. FFS. I despise these people more each day.
2021-01-27 01:38 Robert F. Garry open

Thanks Mazet on the cambobat paper - guilt by association.
2021-01-27 01:41 Robert F. Garry

Yes Billy, Yuri and the DRASTIC crowd going nuts...as @Kristian Andersen said data/smata they'll just move the goalposts.
2021-01-27 01:42 Edward C. Holmes open

Apparently, the PREDICT crowd got added after they claimed it was their sample.
2021-01-27 01:48 Robert F. Garry open

They said same about GD pango of course which is why pango serology is important. Pango actually carry the virus.
2021-01-27 01:50 Edward C. Holmes open

Which is what I always thought!! I never really believed the single outbreak stuff because there are 2 pango lineages.
2021-01-27 01:55 Andrew Rambaut open

The question is whether the progenitor of SC2 is endemic in Chinese pangos or Malaysian ones and is being imported. I think Chinese pangos are pretty thin on the ground these days for obvious reasons.

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