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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.633 [SLACK_000847] · slack_pm:msg:06629

Date: 2021-03-25 13:33
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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My guess is that's what Daszak's tiling project is trying to show along with Eddie's smoking raccoon dog pics. "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."

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2021-03-25 13:11 Kristian G. Andersen open

Getting a translation on that map and Ct values would be great
2021-03-25 13:18 Robert F. Garry open

well maybe no ct values but we know which samples generated positive sequences - i guess of pcr products and which gave genomes at least partial by ngs. it's a pretty good surrogate. i'll try to get Shitao to help me before cobtoday.
2021-03-25 13:19 Robert F. Garry open

@Robert Garry more unforced errors - it's how you lose a tennis match as i understand it.
2021-03-25 13:27 Kristian G. Andersen open

There's clearly clustering of cases in some of the stalls - I'd like to know that those held raccoon dogs and/orcivets... Or pangolins. Or whatever.
2021-03-25 13:33 Robert F. Garry

My guess is that's what Daszak's tiling project is trying to show along with Eddie's smoking raccoon dog pics. "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."
2021-03-25 13:34 Robert F. Garry open

Ask George Gao when you get him on Zoom at 4 your time!
2021-03-25 13:37 Robert F. Garry open

Maybe get the Ct values too while you're at it :thinking_face:
2021-03-25 13:51 Edward C. Holmes open

All we can do now is wait for the WHO report - that will change the debate. I doubt George will say much of interest.
2021-03-25 13:56 Edward C. Holmes open

Zhang just told me that the Director of his institute in Shanghai just got the boot for protecting him last year. The Ministry of Health are keen for vengeance.

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