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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.817 [SLACK_001031] · slack_pm:msg:08524

Date: 2021-05-15 17:36
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes

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It is! I've mentioned HKU1 in virtually every talk I've given over the last 14 months. Just look at that JVI paper. You could just transpose SARS-CoV-2 for CoV-HKU1.

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2021-05-15 17:33 Kristian G. Andersen open

... and SARS-CoV-1 in Foshan. I mean, these are big places - like Wuhan.
2021-05-15 17:34 Edward C. Holmes open

HKU-1. 1. Emerged in massive Asian city; 2. Unknown animal origin; 3. Furin cleavage site; 4. Initially associated with pneumonia. Sound familiar?
2021-05-15 17:35 Kristian G. Andersen open

FUCK EDDIE - THAT CAME FROM THE LAB TOO??!!!!!!!!
2021-05-15 17:35 Kristian G. Andersen open

It's the same thing all over again.
2021-05-15 17:36 Edward C. Holmes

It is! I've mentioned HKU1 in virtually every talk I've given over the last 14 months. Just look at that JVI paper. You could just transpose SARS-CoV-2 for CoV-HKU1.
2021-05-15 17:37 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah, reading it now - it really is exactly the same story all over again. Except, more benign virus.
2021-05-15 17:38 Kristian G. Andersen open

This is good - because if we can kill the "Wuhan isn't so special", it'll help turn over a lot of people. Would also help ifwe had a good sense of where major labs are.
2021-05-15 17:38 Edward C. Holmes open

Initially a pneumonia patient.
2021-05-15 17:40 Edward C. Holmes open

As there was no major outbreak of pneumonia people lost interest, but it's all there.

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