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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.725-726 [SLACK_000939] · slack_pm:msg:07608

Date: 2021-04-22 13:11
Type: chat message · slack
mentioned: Andrew Rambaut
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes

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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.

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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 open

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

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?
2021-04-22 13:17 Edward C. Holmes open

Just spectacularly stupid
2021-04-22 13:19 Edward C. Holmes open

They'd already reported the respirovirus in the pangolins. This was just a follow-up study.
2021-04-22 13:19 Andrew Rambaut open

Someone reply to her with this link: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=respirovirus

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