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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.627 [SLACK_000841] · slack_pm:msg:06571

Date: 2021-03-24 08:54
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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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.

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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 open

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

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
2021-03-24 09:01 Robert F. Garry open

I'd like to know if that map of the Huanan market is reliable. Same map that PD is folding up? ASssuming the red are the positive stalls - Seems to line up with other reporting and what George G said initially.

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