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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.742 [SLACK_000956] · slack_pm:msg:07772

Date: 2021-05-01 22:41
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes
Topics: Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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"Since a coronavirus variant with great similarity to SARS-CoV-2 was also found in a pangolin, Chinese researchers proposed that this armadillo could be an intermediate host (*27*). But how is the virus supposed to get from the bats that catch their food - insects and spiders - in flight at night into the pangolin, whose natural home is Malaysia, and from there into the human lungs? The explanation looks like a hapless assignment of blame."

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Statement	Grade	Attribution	Stance
"Since a coronavirus variant with great similarity to SARS-CoV-2 was also found in a pangolin, Chinese researchers proposed that this armadillo could be an intermediate host (27).	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	asserts
But how is the virus supposed to get from the bats that catch their food - insects and spiders - in flight at night into the pangolin, whose natural home is Malaysia, and from there into the human lungs?	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	questions

Statement

Grade

Attribution

Stance

"Since a coronavirus variant with great similarity to SARS-CoV-2 was also found in a pangolin, Chinese researchers proposed that this armadillo could be an intermediate host (*27*).

quoted / not their view

quoted_external inside quotation marks

asserts

But how is the virus supposed to get from the bats that catch their food - insects and spiders - in flight at night into the pangolin, whose natural home is Malaysia, and from there into the human lungs?

quoted / not their view

quoted_external inside quotation marks

questions

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2021-05-01 22:40 Edward C. Holmes open

This one is priceless: https://iv.iiarjournals.org/content/35/3/1313.long
2021-05-01 22:41 Edward C. Holmes

"Since a coronavirus variant with great similarity to SARS-CoV-2 was also found in a pangolin, Chinese researchers proposed that this armadillo could be an intermediate host (*27*). But how is the virus supposed to get from the bats that catch their food - insects and spiders - in flight at night into the pangolin, whose natural home is Malaysia, and from there into the human lungs? The explanation looks like a hapless assignment of blame."

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