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Date
2021-04-12 16:30
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Kristian G. Andersen
Topics
Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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Finally had some time to read the pangolin paper in Frontiers. It's a shit paper, but the findings seem solid enough -~10% of tested pangolins (in a single zoo in Guangdong) positive for SARS(2)-like CoVs. That's pretty nuts. Totalconvenience sampling too and they didn't go after these specifically - I think pangolins might just be packed full ofCoVs, which is bloody scary.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.657439/full

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Totalconvenience sampling too and they didn't go after these specifically - I think pangolins might just be packed full ofCoVs, which is bloody scary.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.657439/full needs context uncertain explicit hedge asserts

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  1. 2021-04-12 16:30 Kristian G. Andersen
    Finally had some time to read the pangolin paper in Frontiers. It's a shit paper, but the findings seem solid enough -~10% of tested pangolins (in a single zoo in Guangdong) positive for SARS(2)-like CoVs. That's pretty nuts. Totalconvenience sampling too and they didn't go after these specifically - I think pangolins might just be packed full ofCoVs, which is bloody scary.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.657439/full
  2. 2021-04-12 16:33 Kristian G. Andersen open
    SARS, of course, broke out in Guangdong. I wonder if we're blind because we're focusing so much on bats in Yunnan - is it possible these guys are coming from pangolins?
  3. 2021-04-12 16:34 Edward C. Holmes open
    No doubt in my mind that pangolins are major reservoirs. That's what Tommy and Linfa see as well. And it won't justbe bats and pangolins.
  4. 2021-04-12 16:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Wasn't there a zoo behind the Huanan market too? Any idea if they had pangolins?
  5. 2021-04-12 16:36 Edward C. Holmes open
    I'll check with that reporter

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