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Maybe even a special genetically-engineered Superdog? That Trump era intel really needs to be released ASAP.

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2021-04-21 07:57 Robert F. Garry open

DRASTIC thinks NellY was a mouse mutation engineered into circulating SC2 by the CCP army to take out the UK. That theory is based on https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6511/1603.full
2021-04-21 08:01 Kristian G. Andersen open

I'm surprised it took them so long to speculate about lab origins of the variants. Way more likely (but still highly unlikely...) than the initial spillover.
2021-04-21 08:10 Andrew Rambaut open

Yes. They waited for an imported case from London, engineered in all the mutations and then shipped it back to Kent to release it.
2021-04-21 08:10 Andrew Rambaut open

Probably in a dog
2021-04-21 08:13 Robert F. Garry

Maybe even a special genetically-engineered Superdog? That Trump era intel really needs to be released ASAP.
2021-04-21 08:17 Robert F. Garry open

OTOH - it's perhaps not _too_ crazy to think that SC2 could find it's way into and get established in other perhaps high density species. Low hanging fruit - shutting down mink farming seems prudent.
2021-04-21 08:18 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yup
2021-04-21 08:18 Andrew Rambaut open

The the thing if you have a new persistent reservoir you should be seeing on going spill over from it.
2021-04-21 08:19 Andrew Rambaut open

All B.1.1.7 seems to be neatly derived from the early kent virus