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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.635 [SLACK_000849] · slack_pm:msg:06656

Date: 2021-03-26 07:22
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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> I can't see any scenario of animal reservoir that would fit the phylogenetic tree of what we see globally Agreed, however, it wouldn't necessarily be visible as I'm specifically talking about very rare events 'cooking' upsome of the variants. E.g., in the Tanzania example, a lineage hopped into some animal, caused an epizootic (withno spill-back), and then at some point spilled back into human, causing onward human-to-human transmission. It'dbe a rare event and I don't think it's super likely, but I'm not sure our current data is inconsistent with such ascenario?

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2021-03-26 07:14 Kristian G. Andersen open

This, Bob? Cute. She might not want to go ahead with that... :skull: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-26 at 07.10.37.png]
2021-03-26 07:16 Andrew Rambaut open

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-26/former-cdc-chief-says-he-thinks-co[...]=social&utm_sour ce=twitter&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business
2021-03-26 07:17 Kristian G. Andersen open

Hah. Well, not exactly the top scientist in the US, huh?
2021-03-26 07:22 Kristian G. Andersen

> I can't see any scenario of animal reservoir that would fit the phylogenetic tree of what we see globally Agreed, however, it wouldn't necessarily be visible as I'm specifically talking about very rare events 'cooking' upsome of the variants. E.g., in the Tanzania example, a lineage hopped into some animal, caused an epizootic (withno spill-back), and then at some point spilled back into human, causing onward human-to-human transmission. It'dbe a rare event and I don't think it's super likely, but I'm not sure our current data is inconsistent with such ascenario?
2021-03-26 07:31 Kristian G. Andersen open

Some strong science behind Bobby's conclusion though. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-26 at 07.30.07.png]
2021-03-26 07:37 Robert F. Garry open

Even his friends like Bob Gallo recognize that he's a :clown_face:
2021-03-26 07:47 Andrew Rambaut open

"most infectious virus we know in humanity"? Ha - not even close
2021-03-26 07:49 Kristian G. Andersen open

Can you believe it - he was the Director of the US CDC...

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