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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.726 [SLACK_000940] · slack_pm:msg:07619

Date: 2021-04-22 16:00
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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Yes indeed - really need to get the White House and DoS up to speed on the - I'm sure you know - the actual science instead of the :hankey:. We are on the wrong side of the politics, but the right side of reality.

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2021-04-22 16:00 Robert F. Garry

Yes indeed - really need to get the White House and DoS up to speed on the - I'm sure you know - the actual science instead of the :hankey:. We are on the wrong side of the politics, but the right side of reality.
2021-04-22 16:01 Robert F. Garry open

The ASTMH article a good start. Much more needed to counter the BS.
2021-04-22 16:03 Kristian G. Andersen open

I'm talking to the WH (again....) next week. We'll see.
2021-04-22 16:11 Robert F. Garry open

We may need to get more pro-active. We're not in the "majority" opinion. Gonna take some leadership.
2021-04-22 16:24 Edward C. Holmes open

The ASTMH story makes the simplest point that I've made so many times before: if they had a cool bat CoV, particularly one with a FCS, they would have definitely published it prior to the pandemic. No bigger driver than ahigh impact paper.

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