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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.501 [SLACK_000715] · slack_pm:msg:05231

Date: 2021-02-09 04:44
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Intelligence community assessments

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Any competent scientist that does not have a preconceived notion and takes more than a superficial look at the question will come to the same conclusion.

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Any competent scientist that does not have a preconceived notion and takes more than a superficial look at the question will come to the same conclusion.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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Any competent scientist that does not have a preconceived notion and takes more than a superficial look at the question will come to the same conclusion.

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2021-02-09 04:39 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-vaccine-south-africa-variant-quarantine-cases/
2021-02-09 04:44 Robert F. Garry

Any competent scientist that does not have a preconceived notion and takes more than a superficial look at the question will come to the same conclusion.
2021-02-09 04:45 Robert F. Garry open

@Eddie Holmes IIRC raccoon dogs were one of @Eddie Holmes go to beasts from the get go.
2021-02-09 04:54 Robert F. Garry open

Don't see how "frozen food" is separate from 1 or 2 - apparently to make their hosts happy. [shared file(s): image.png]
2021-02-09 05:20 Andrew Rambaut open

@Robert Garry Any opinion on this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33556558/
2021-02-09 05:47 Robert F. Garry open

Quick look - I'll look again in the office. Setting aside the phylogeography (of course) - the additional cleavage ispossible. CoVs likely have more than one "fusion" peptide. There is a cysteine bond following the D614G and priorto the FCS - inbetween is one of the aforementioned putative fusion peptides.

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