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Date
2021-02-06 09:53
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry

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Do you remember the big deal that was made about how Shi did not mention the FCS in her first SC2 paper? Did I miss it? Where in the Chan-Ridley paper is the mention of the FCS that definitely proves SC2 is man-made?

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  1. 2021-02-06 08:44 Andrew Rambaut open
    Yes.
  2. 2021-02-06 08:44 Andrew Rambaut open
    And that is why they are so anti any idea of a previous history of circulation or cases in Europe in November etc.
  3. 2021-02-06 09:31 Robert F. Garry open
    Alina is still in love with her notion that the virus was "already well adapted to humans" when the first cases were detected based on dN/dS. Yet, we know the virus infects minks, ferrets, dogs, cats, lions, gorillas, rodents as well asit infects humans. Doug and the VoC that have followed show that SC2 and its RBD and FCS are still adapting to us.
  4. 2021-02-06 09:34 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I think they forget that SC1 != SC2. They're literally basing that entire argument on n=1. I told her this many many months ago (gave her an example from Ebola - which looks like SC2.... mysterious!), but I guess it doesn't fit the narrative very well.
  5. 2021-02-06 09:53 Robert F. Garry
    Do you remember the big deal that was made about how Shi did not mention the FCS in her first SC2 paper? Did I miss it? Where in the Chan-Ridley paper is the mention of the FCS that definitely proves SC2 is man-made?
  6. 2021-02-06 09:53 Robert F. Garry open
    Guess they forgot FCS too.
  7. 2021-02-06 09:54 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Moving the goal post. Constantly.
  8. 2021-02-06 10:45 Robert F. Garry open
    Speaking of FCS https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1873506120304165 YP_009072440.1
  9. 2021-02-06 10:46 Robert F. Garry open
    _Hibecovirus - two known One with a FCS the other not. the S2' of the nonFCS one has a predicted O-linked glycan...._

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