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Date
2021-04-14 07:52
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry
Topics
VaccinesIntelligence community assessmentsWHO and international investigation

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COVID COMMISSION PLANNING GROUP https://millercenter.org/covidcpgThe Planning Group is directed by Philip Zelikow, who was executive director of the 9/11 Commission and the earlier, privately organized, Carter-Ford Commission on Federal Election Reform. Leading experts on the *Johns Hopkins* team include Amesh Adalja, Anita Cicero, Lisa Cooper, Gigi Gronvall, Tara Kirk Sell, Jennifer Nuzzo, Caitlin Rivers, Joshua Sharfstein, Eric Toner, and Crystal Watson. Senior advisers to the Covid CPG include veteran investigators and experts drawn from across several disciplines, including Michael Callahan, an expert on infectious disease and vaccine development at Massachusetts General Hospital; Nicholas Christakis of Yale University and author of _Apollo's Arrow;_ Ruth Faden, founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; Julie Gerberding, chief patient officer and executive vice president at Merck and former CDC director; Margaret "Peggy" Hamburg, former New York City health commissioner and FDA commissioner; Alexander Lazar of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas;* Marc Lipsitch of Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health*; Anup Malani atthe University of Chicago; J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president and director of the Global Health Policy Centerat the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota; *microbiologist David Relman of Stanford University*; Kristin Urquiza, co-founder of Marked By COVID; and Rajeev Venkayya, a former biodefense official and head of global vaccines at Takeda.The Covid CPG is currently organized around planning nine task forces, laying the foundation for a future commission to investigate:• *Origins and prevention*, including debates about the origins of this pandemic; analysis of the virus and its variants; and the rising danger of future pandemics *Lipstich and Relman - not a good sign*

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  1. 2021-04-14 07:25 Robert F. Garry open
    @Andrew Rambaut https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29128390/ RmYN02 doesn't vary from SC2 as much as RaTG13 in the "dip"- but some variability - It's the "hypervariable region" also rich in glutamic acid.
  2. 2021-04-14 07:52 Robert F. Garry
    COVID COMMISSION PLANNING GROUP https://millercenter.org/covidcpgThe Planning Group is directed by Philip Zelikow, who was executive director of the 9/11 Commission and the earlier, privately organized, Carter-Ford Commission on Federal Election Reform. Leading experts on the *Johns Hopkins* team include Amesh Adalja, Anita Cicero, Lisa Cooper, Gigi Gronvall, Tara Kirk Sell, Jennifer Nuzzo, Caitlin Rivers, Joshua Sharfstein, Eric Toner, and Crystal Watson. Senior advisers to the Covid CPG include veteran investigators and experts drawn from across several disciplines, including Michael Callahan, an expert on infectious disease and vaccine development at Massachusetts General Hospital; Nicholas Christakis of Yale University and author of _Apollo's Arrow;_ Ruth Faden, founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; Julie Gerberding, chief patient officer and executive vice president at Merck and former CDC director; Margaret "Peggy" Hamburg, former New York City health commissioner and FDA commissioner; Alexander Lazar of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas;* Marc Lipsitch of Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health*; Anup Malani atthe University of Chicago; J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president and director of the Global Health Policy Centerat the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota; *microbiologist David Relman of Stanford University*; Kristin Urquiza, co-founder of Marked By COVID; and Rajeev Venkayya, a former biodefense official and head of global vaccines at Takeda.The Covid CPG is currently organized around planning nine task forces, laying the foundation for a future commission to investigate:• *Origins and prevention*, including debates about the origins of this pandemic; analysis of the virus and its variants; and the rising danger of future pandemics *Lipstich and Relman - not a good sign*

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