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1. 2021-04-20 10:07 Andrew Rambaut open
   "Lam a reporter at Science and my colleague Martin Enserink suggested I reach out to you. I am trying to evaluatethe importance of this new preprint: https:/Awww.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.16.440141v1 ?rss=1%22 andam hoping that you can take a quick look at it and give me your reaction to it. Toward that end, I've included some questions below, but we can also talk by zoom if that's more convenient.Please let me know right away that this message has reached you and how you can help. Many thanks. Stay safe, and sane.Elizabeth PennisiScienceDo I call you and evolutionary biologist? If not, then what? What impresses you about this paper and why? What is the most important new insight it provides on the origin of this variant? How strong is the evidence that this variant may have arisen in dogs? Are you convinced? Why or why not? What are your current thoughts about the origin of this variant? What are the biomedical implications of this paper? Any other thoughts? Thanks again,LizOne for you Kristian - animal reservoir. However quick look suggests total balloux. Seems they have mutationsaccumulating backwards in time.
2. 2021-04-20 10:07 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Yeah, she emailed me too - looks like complete bs.
3. 2021-04-20 10:07 Kristian G. Andersen open
   (only read the abstract...)
4. 2021-04-20 10:07 Edward C. Holmes open
   And me. Shite.
5. 2021-04-20 10:07 Edward C. Holmes
   I'll tell her not to waste time on it and let the reviewers deal with it.
6. 2021-04-20 10:07 Kristian G. Andersen open
   Nice tree in that preprint. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-04-20 at 2.25.20 PM.png]

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