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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.619 [SLACK_000833] · slack_pm:msg:06477

Date: 2021-03-23 05:43
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesis

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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.

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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.	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	asserts

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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.

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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 open

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

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...
2021-03-23 06:12 Andrew Rambaut open

Shows how modular the spike is though.
2021-03-23 06:56 Kristian G. Andersen open

@Andrew Rambaut Never saw that money from the institution. Bastards.
2021-03-23 07:00 Kristian G. Andersen open

I think people are majorly underestimating how flexible and mutational tolerant the spike is.

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