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What do we make of this: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.22.436468v1.full.pdf

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2021-03-23 04:53 Robert F. Garry open

PO1 was indeed the perfect red herring to distract the sleuths and detectives from uncovering the plan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylwMWpbv5Fk
2021-03-23 04:57 Robert F. Garry open

But the true genus was throwing out RaTG13 - look how long it too until anyone suspected that "we" had SC2 all along! We being all of us "chaos agents" on Alina's wall. $40M not too bad Kristian!
2021-03-23 05:19 Andrew Rambaut

What do we make of this: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.22.436468v1.full.pdf
2021-03-23 05:38 Robert F. Garry open

Plausible - Indel Region 2 and 3 - very divergent between SC2 and GDpangocov.
2021-03-23 05:39 Robert F. Garry open

NTD is the receptor binding domain of many CoVs.
2021-03-23 05:43 Robert F. Garry open

Not on this topic but related to "the Plan." Spoke with Betsy McKay again late yesterday- reading between the lines Ibelieve that our friend "Deep Throat" has surfaced again. She was aware of the email exchanges back in January -hinted that they had been shared with her from someone on the calls that thought "we" were a bit overly friendly tothe lab leak.
2021-03-23 05:47 Robert F. Garry open

Back to the interesting paper - important to keep in mind that enhanced replication in cell culture doesn't necessarilytranslate to enhanced pathogenesis. As Andrew you've noted - it's all about the timing...