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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.676 [SLACK_000890] · slack_pm:msg:07088

Page text: p.676 · original PDF

Date
2021-04-05 14:58
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker
Andrew Rambaut

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Hey Eddie - I have asked to pull my name off that daft WHO variant nomenclature paper. I am not going to be callingB.1.351 'Focanuba' any time soon... [shared file(s): image.png]

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  1. 2021-04-05 14:06 Edward C. Holmes open
    Yes, it's just garbage.
  2. 2021-04-05 14:19 Robert F. Garry open
    No Bas-Congo Virus? Maybe I'm missing it. The only "human pathogen" discovered by PREDICT doesn't even make the list. How can that be?
  3. 2021-04-05 14:55 Edward C. Holmes open
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0300891620987756
  4. 2021-04-05 14:56 Edward C. Holmes open
    Apparently there is now concern about an early Italian serology study - oh what a surprise
  5. 2021-04-05 14:58 Andrew Rambaut
    Hey Eddie - I have asked to pull my name off that daft WHO variant nomenclature paper. I am not going to be callingB.1.351 'Focanuba' any time soon... [shared file(s): image.png]
  6. 2021-04-05 15:01 Edward C. Holmes open
    Shit. I didn't even read it. The last draft I saw never had this stuff in. Is this a joke?
  7. 2021-04-05 15:06 Edward C. Holmes open
    Who devised this? Did Oli agree?
  8. 2021-04-05 15:11 Andrew Rambaut open
    This is Jens Kuhn's handywork I think.
  9. 2021-04-05 15:12 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Eddie, man, go focanuba yourself. But, please, don't go foc a nuba.

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