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Date
2021-03-20 10:29
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recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry

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https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/major-coronavirus-variant-found-pets-first-time:black_cat::cat2::dog2: ohmy.

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  1. 2021-03-20 09:50 Robert F. Garry open
    @Andrew Rambaut points well taken re cross-reactivity - even the best seroassays are not 100% - the paper we referenced in PO1 and the one Daszak is talking about did look for cross-rxty with other covs. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12250-018-0012-7 cloned most of the known human covs and tested thoseas well as follow-up western blotting. my take is at least some sarbecovirus reactivity possible.
  2. 2021-03-20 10:01 Robert F. Garry open
    ...and the cdc paper - which i cant find now - showing seroreactivty to SC2 pre-pandemic was crap.
  3. 2021-03-20 10:07 Robert F. Garry open
    More crap: https://undark.org/2021/03/18/utterly-plausible-lab-leak-hypothesis/
  4. 2021-03-20 10:14 Robert F. Garry open
    Reality: Every one of the zoo's panthers are equipped with chips. The instant the animal left it's perimeter, alertswere sounded and a team was sent to capture it before it escaped the zoo, The zoo has large fence around itsperimeter as well.
  5. 2021-03-20 10:29 Robert F. Garry
    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/major-coronavirus-variant-found-pets-first-time:black_cat::cat2::dog2: ohmy.
  6. 2021-03-20 10:31 Robert F. Garry open
    So --- if it's true that SC2 a "generalist" virus, is it rapidly now becoming more of a generalist virus???
  7. 2021-03-20 10:49 Robert F. Garry open
    AS for the panthers there have been 125 panther attacks in the US in the past 100 years - 27 fatalities. All of the attacks were wild panthers - none had escaped from a zoo.
  8. 2021-03-20 11:06 Robert F. Garry open
    But there is a hypothetical chance that pathers could escape from a zoo, so best- i guess it will be argued - just toshut down all the zoos.

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