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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.544 [SLACK_000758] · slack_pm:msg:05673

Date: 2021-02-24 07:41
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen
Topics: Intelligence community assessments Biosafety and biosecurity

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Hah, this is sooooo terrible. I'm pretty sure that Pompy looked up "Biosafety Level", thought, "That's some scary shit- let's blame China", and grabbed the keyboard.US politicians (and intelligence) actually used to be widely respected in the world. Boy, has that gone downhill.

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2021-02-24 07:16 Robert F. Garry open

Pompeo [shared file(s): China's Reckless Labs Put the World at Risk - WSJ.pdf]
2021-02-24 07:34 Andrew Rambaut open

So much insinuation without actually accusing them of anything
2021-02-24 07:41 Kristian G. Andersen

Hah, this is sooooo terrible. I'm pretty sure that Pompy looked up "Biosafety Level", thought, "That's some scary shit- let's blame China", and grabbed the keyboard.US politicians (and intelligence) actually used to be widely respected in the world. Boy, has that gone downhill.
2021-02-24 07:44 Kristian G. Andersen open

We now have an "NYC" variant... Sigh. Any concerns about any of these mutations - especially the ORF1s? [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-02-24 at 7.38.07 AM.png]
2021-02-24 07:45 Kristian G. Andersen open

Here's the report on it - rising in NYC (yes, of course there's a preprint...) https://outbreak.info/situation-reports?country=United%20States&division=California[...]20York&pango=B .1.526&selected=New%20York&selectedType=division
2021-02-24 08:11 Andrew Rambaut open

There are 2 subclades of B.1.526 - one has E484K, the other S477N. https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/6
2021-02-24 08:26 Kristian G. Andersen open

Ah, interesting - need to dig a little further then (we can now do pango lineage + mutation on outbreak.info, so that's pretty nifty). If this is the one with, especially, eek, then that's interesting - a lot of standing immunity in large parts ofNYC.

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