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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.797 [SLACK_001011] · slack_pm:msg:08280

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Date
2021-05-13 13:29
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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Never has the name Butt Lesion been so appropriate.

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  1. 2021-05-13 13:11 Robert F. Garry open
    https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-05-13/un-grupo-de-destacados-cientificos-pide-una-autentica-investigacion-del-origen-de-la-pandemia.html "Epidemiologist Ian Lipkin , a world authority on emerging pathogens, was another of five experts who in March 2020 pointed to a natural origin of the coronavirus as the most likely hypothesis. His speech now sounds more skeptical. "We may never know the origin of SARS-CoV-2. I am concerned that scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology did not take adequate precautions when cultivating bat viruses, "Lipkin explains to ELPAÍS. The epidemiologist, from Columbia University (USA), cites research with dangerous viruses carried out inWuhan before the pandemic in laboratories with a medium level of biosafety." I might have said something too.
  2. 2021-05-13 13:19 Robert F. Garry open
    To think that I sent him one of the posters...
  3. 2021-05-13 13:19 Andrew Rambaut open
    I have started a document - mainly to rant... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lPzBuXW0BY0okNljUBjmOSzDvwMsiW_UGMHYcyCWD4E/edit
  4. 2021-05-13 13:28 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Great! I'll try to draft something for a reply to Relman too - thanks Bob for the stuff above.
  5. 2021-05-13 13:29 Edward C. Holmes
    Never has the name Butt Lesion been so appropriate.
  6. 2021-05-13 13:34 Andrew Rambaut open
    I am now glad we got him on the origins paper - makes him look like a swithering idiot.
  7. 2021-05-13 14:10 Andrew Rambaut open
    Currently dealing with the shit show that is B.1.617.2 (it is always the lineages with 1s and 7s in it). Might be a bitpreoccupied for a bit.
  8. 2021-05-13 14:10 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, I mean [shared file(s): E1P6mJmWQAEg1sz.png]
  9. 2021-05-13 14:11 Andrew Rambaut open
    Yeah - but as always it isn't as simple as that.

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