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1. 2021-03-09 16:23 Kristian G. Andersen open
   I'm very surprised by how passive Broad has been in all of this. Had she done this at our institution, she would have been fired - personal attacks are sackable offenses. Rightly so.
2. 2021-03-09 16:29 Robert F. Garry open
   @Kristian Andersen She is also wasting a lot of other people's time driving the false narrative about fake pango /bat CoV sequences and how SC2 emerged perfectly adapted. Not that other idiots haven't and wouldn't have carried that water, but she brings the imprimatur of the Broad - and by their passivity - tacit approval.
3. 2021-03-09 16:57 Edward C. Holmes open
   Got this from a friend at EgoHealth. Very interesting. Obviously keep to yourselves: "Apparently the WHO team spent a fair bit of time matching landmarks from your photos to the market when they visited, and the drain grates that the raccoon dogs were sitting on top of in your pictures correspond to the places in the market where they found the lowest CoV Ct values (all of this is still confidential but will be in the report I think). Seems reasonable that those guys were infected and shedding virus in their feces, as Koopmans thought it was highly unlikely that that level ofCoV RNA would be in those grates from human sources. Unfortunately the Chinese didn't do any source tracing ofany mammals from the market originally (I think they're still claiming it was seafood only), and now all those farms are apparently coat hanger factories (?), so I don't think that they'll be able to really test that hypothesis. The WHO team also found frozen raccoon dog/ferret badger (they're unsure and I think are waiting for barcoding) carcassesstill at the market, so it's possible that some of the frozen food detections they've had could have come from the same source farm or processing plant as the live animals."
4. 2021-03-09 17:12 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Very interesting - and, of course, makes a ton of sense. Kinda looking forward to the full report - I'm not convinced it'll be a total dud :wink:
5. 2021-03-09 17:23 Edward C. Holmes
   Agreed - seems better than I imagined The Parisites will explode
6. 2021-03-09 17:48 Robert F. Garry open
   That would be good!

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