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Or the pangos are just susceptible to most of the viruses in this branch of serbecoviruses

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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.
2021-01-27 01:55 Robert F. Garry open

@Eddie Holmes Typical - surprised she's not first author. First/last authors on all papers was the "deal" Metabiota[Wolfe/@longcovidfaker] made with all their predict sites.
2021-01-27 01:56 Andrew Rambaut

Or the pangos are just susceptible to most of the viruses in this branch of serbecoviruses
2021-01-27 01:56 Edward C. Holmes open

@Eddie Holmes Indeed. But the Cambodians insisted it wasn't their sample.
2021-01-27 01:57 Andrew Rambaut open

Clearly the branch is widely distributed in bats
2021-01-27 02:00 Robert F. Garry open

Good points Andrew - China imports a LOT of pangos from Africa too, so we're on a full court press to see if we can find any pango covs there...
2021-01-27 02:00 Edward C. Holmes open

The Yunnan pango sequence is close to those from Guangxi. Serology suggests positive animals in Thailand and Malaysia (i.e. Tommy).