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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.596 [SLACK_000810] · slack_pm:msg:06223

Date: 2021-03-15 00:29
Type: chat message · slack
mentioned: Edward C. Holmes
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker: Andrew Rambaut

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@Eddie Holmes Otherwise black arrow is the critical one that is not labelled or discussed - that is the chance that asample is collected with human transmissible virus that is at high enough viral load and fresh enough that the virus isstill alive.

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2021-03-15 00:27 Andrew Rambaut open

@Eddie Holmes Is `B` synthesising and rescuing the genome sequence?
2021-03-15 00:29 Andrew Rambaut

@Eddie Holmes Otherwise black arrow is the critical one that is not labelled or discussed - that is the chance that asample is collected with human transmissible virus that is at high enough viral load and fresh enough that the virus isstill alive.
2021-03-15 00:30 Edward C. Holmes open

@Eddie Holmes Not sure, but it involves passing the virus from people to humans.
2021-03-15 00:34 Andrew Rambaut open

@Eddie Holmes I think the unlikeliness of getting a 'live' sample back to the lab from a collecting trip is a majorunmentioned issue. And if we get into synthesising genomes and constructing viruses then that suggests a major research project that was secret for no good reason.
2021-03-15 01:28 Edward C. Holmes open

Swiss news about us: https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/coronavirus-genom-eng-mit-sars-cov-2-verwandter-vi[...]ren -analysiert-ld.1605598?mktcid=smch&mktcval=twpost_2021-03-12

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