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Who would have imaged that any one animal could be infected with more than one respiratory virus?

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2021-04-22 12:54 Robert F. Garry open

Really love the "Nature is clearly a cauldron for intense and dangerous coronavirus evolution" bit.
2021-04-22 12:56 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah. And this was written before we saw all the crazy new viruses and variants as of late - nature really is frightening.
2021-04-22 12:59 Edward C. Holmes open

https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/jgv.0.001586
2021-04-22 13:00 Edward C. Holmes open

It's a respirovirus. The clue is in the title. Nothing to do with SC2 at all.
2021-04-22 13:02 Robert F. Garry

Who would have imaged that any one animal could be infected with more than one respiratory virus?
2021-04-22 13:04 Edward C. Holmes open

Is she so dumb as to not realise that 'resipirovirus' is a taxonomic name?
2021-04-22 13:09 Robert F. Garry open

Yes - actually dumber.
2021-04-22 13:11 Edward C. Holmes open

Yes, she's clearly behind that PLoS request. Like @Andrew Rambaut I was also asked by PLoS to look at that paper yesterday. I declined because I said that I would be classed as having a conflict of interest.
2021-04-22 13:15 Kristian G. Andersen open

I'm not quite sure what she's trying to say - that first they said it was SARS-CoV-2 and then later repackaged the paper when they realized it was a resipirovirus?