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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.568 [SLACK_000782] · slack_pm:msg:05937

Date: 2021-03-05 10:06
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen
Topics: Furin cleavage site and molecular features

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That's indeed pretty naive thinking - plus, the RBD can be found across multiple different viruses by now, so clearly this isn't "selecting for human transmissibility". And yeah - infection != transmission (although the former is obviously required for the latter).

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That's indeed pretty naive thinking - plus, the RBD can be found across multiple different viruses by now, so clearly this isn't "selecting for human transmissibility".	quoted / not their view	quoted_external sentence carries quotation marks	acknowledges

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That's indeed pretty naive thinking - plus, the RBD can be found across multiple different viruses by now, so clearly this isn't "selecting for human transmissibility".

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2021-03-05 09:11 Andrew Rambaut open

Uhh, got DMed by Tami Leiberman after my tweet. Doesn't seem to know the difference between infectivity and transmissibility.
2021-03-05 09:32 Kristian G. Andersen open

What did she DM? I know Tami relatively well and she's good, but some of her SC2 stuff has been really disappointing and very naive.
2021-03-05 09:32 Kristian G. Andersen open

"Some" = "most", unfortunately.
2021-03-05 09:53 Andrew Rambaut open

shared file(s): Image from iOS.jpg
2021-03-05 10:06 Kristian G. Andersen

That's indeed pretty naive thinking - plus, the RBD can be found across multiple different viruses by now, so clearly this isn't "selecting for human transmissibility". And yeah - infection != transmission (although the former is obviously required for the latter).
2021-03-05 10:41 Robert F. Garry open

A house burns down - some people die. Another house burns down and some more people die. The town builds a fire department. Another house catches on fire. The fire department stops the fire, but not before several housesburn. The firemen saved several other houses and perhaps several lives. The firemen are blamed for starting the fire.
2021-03-05 11:03 Robert F. Garry open

Hmmmm - good advice I guess: [shared file(s): image.png]
2021-03-05 11:32 Kristian G. Andersen open

I guess these folks didn't take Statistics 101 - especially the chapter on that Tom dude. Or maybe they just flunkedout of primary school.

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