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Date
2021-05-05 15:35
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry
Topics
Media strategy and public messaging

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Good! https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/who-report-says-covid-originated-in-bats-but-critics-claim-the-study-was-biased Relman is in this interview - and imo - this is probably the GW's best interview. Relman is just going to throwup the same arguments he made here and in the PNAS article.

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  1. 2021-05-05 15:10 Robert F. Garry open
    You would expect that if _Science_ is going to publish an ostensibly peer-reviewed letter that there would need to besomething specific there. Yes - please Alina's RatG13 and Pangovirus are fake and SC2 is perfectly adapted BS. Ifit's Relman then GoF is gonna be in there. Very disappointed in Jessie Bloom - he admitted he hadn't looked at the science very closely - now he's going in.
  2. 2021-05-05 15:20 Edward C. Holmes open
    I hope they say that RaTG13 is the closest relative of SARS-CoV-2 and that the pangolin viruses are dodgy. That will clearly show that they've not been listening.
  3. 2021-05-05 15:21 Robert F. Garry open
    Even thou Gorman is and should be on your shit list - I hope you agreed to look at the letter. I wouldn't play nice with Lab Leakers - they all have something else going on.
  4. 2021-05-05 15:30 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I told Jim I'd take a look. I'll share when I have it.
  5. 2021-05-05 15:35 Robert F. Garry
    Good! https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/who-report-says-covid-originated-in-bats-but-critics-claim-the-study-was-biased Relman is in this interview - and imo - this is probably the GW's best interview. Relman is just going to throwup the same arguments he made here and in the PNAS article.
  6. 2021-05-05 15:35 Andrew Rambaut open
    It would be good to get some comments from people who aren't us - though.
  7. 2021-05-05 15:38 Robert F. Garry open
    THat's a real good idea. Maybe some of these folks: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32700664/
  8. 2021-05-05 15:46 Edward C. Holmes open
    This comment from Daszak is the key one:
  9. 2021-05-05 15:46 Edward C. Holmes open
    • *Dr. Peter Daszak:* • Yes, I have been speaking to them for 15 years. If they had found a virus that was high, of high interest that they were working on, they would have told me before the outbreak, because that's what we were doing before the outbreak.• We shared information on a weekly basis. Yes, some of them answer up the party chain, but they also are scientists. If there is something that the intelligence agencies know that they could supply to the WHO team, they would supply it and we will look at that.

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