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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.754 [SLACK_000968] · slack_pm:msg:07898

Date: 2021-05-06 05:42
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Furin cleavage site and molecular features Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

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"When I first saw the furin cleavage site in the viral sequence, with its arginine codons, I said to my wife it was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus," said David Baltimore, an eminent virologist and former president of theCalifornia Institute of Technology, often known as CalTech. "These features make a powerful challenge to the ideaof a natural origin for SARS2," he said. (1) This is a quote added to Wade's piece in The Bulletin.

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"When I first saw the furin cleavage site in the viral sequence, with its arginine codons, I said to my wife it was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus," said David Baltimore, an eminent virologist and former president of theCalifornia Institute of Technology, often known as CalTech.	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	asserts
"These features make a powerful challenge to the ideaof a natural origin for SARS2," he said.	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	asserts

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"These features make a powerful challenge to the ideaof a natural origin for SARS2," he said.

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2021-05-06 04:58 Robert F. Garry open

Dazsak is right. The journalists are falling for the internet sleuths/maligned post-doc bullshit. More like lies to power but the effect is the same.
2021-05-06 05:19 Robert F. Garry open

It might be worth putting in either a counter letter or perhaps better a technical comment in response to Relman and Bloom.
2021-05-06 05:19 Robert F. Garry open

*Technical Comments* (up to 1000 words, 2 figures or tables, 15 references, and no Supplementary Materials), are published online and critique the core conclusions and/or methodology of research published in *Science* within the previous 3 months.
2021-05-06 05:42 Robert F. Garry

"When I first saw the furin cleavage site in the viral sequence, with its arginine codons, I said to my wife it was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus," said David Baltimore, an eminent virologist and former president of theCalifornia Institute of Technology, often known as CalTech. "These features make a powerful challenge to the ideaof a natural origin for SARS2," he said. (1) This is a quote added to Wade's piece in The Bulletin.
2021-05-06 05:44 Andrew Rambaut open

And the WIV has recently sent a firmware update to give it 618R using 5G mobile phones

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