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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.627 [SLACK_000841] · slack_pm:msg:06568

Date: 2021-03-24 07:53
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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Has anybody sequenced a genome from an environmental sample not from the market? E.g., from a home of somebody infected with SARS-CoV-2? If no, then that's pretty darn key - and it's been in front of us all this time...

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2021-03-24 07:47 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/news/2020/06/sec-200613-globaltimes02.htm
2021-03-24 07:48 Robert F. Garry open

https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world/china-coronavirus-detected-large-quantity-of-wuhan-seafood-market-5833 12 Here's the money shot: "Thirty-one of the 33 positive samples were collected from the western zone of the market, where booths of wildlife trading concentrated. The result suggests that the novel coronavirus outbreak is highly relevant to the trading of the wild animals, experts said. The successful isolation of the novel coronavirus further substantiates that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market contains a large quantity of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), according to the experts."
2021-03-24 07:52 Robert F. Garry open

https://epochtimes.today/chinas-official-narrative-on-wuhan-wet-market-contradicted-by-leaked-document/ [shared file(s): image.png]
2021-03-24 07:53 Kristian G. Andersen

Has anybody sequenced a genome from an environmental sample not from the market? E.g., from a home of somebody infected with SARS-CoV-2? If no, then that's pretty darn key - and it's been in front of us all this time...
2021-03-24 07:54 Kristian G. Andersen open

Unrelated - I think Tami is about to get a hard earned lesson in the perils of logical fallacies. I'll go get me popcorn.[shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-24 at 7.51.51 AM.png]
2021-03-24 07:56 Robert F. Garry open

Epoch Times - so biased [shared file(s): [Exclusive] Secrets of Wuhan South China Seafood Market Testing _ New Coronavirus _ COVID-19 _ Virus Traceability _ Epoch Times.pdf]
2021-03-24 08:54 Robert F. Garry open

GSAID has 398 samples from the environment - so it can be done. Haven't looked carefully [and the server is shutdown now] but most appear to be from waste water, which means that they are concentrating the samples a lot. Others from patient rooms which is not the same thing as an random patient walking through the market.
2021-03-24 08:58 Kristian G. Andersen open

The patient room samples are the key ones - yeah, sewage - while pretty hard - can be done. I'll take a look thisafternoon too - and ask Rob Knight who's been doing a lot of this stuff

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