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Date
2021-05-15 17:38
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Kristian G. Andersen
Topics
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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.

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  1. 2021-05-15 17:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
    FUCK EDDIE - THAT CAME FROM THE LAB TOO??!!!!!!!!
  2. 2021-05-15 17:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
    It's the same thing all over again.
  3. 2021-05-15 17:36 Edward C. Holmes open
    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.
  4. 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.
  5. 2021-05-15 17:38 Kristian G. Andersen
    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.
  6. 2021-05-15 17:38 Edward C. Holmes open
    Initially a pneumonia patient.
  7. 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.
  8. 2021-05-15 17:41 Kristian G. Andersen open
    That's the thing - there's a huge bias towards "something odd here" when things go wrong. But HKU1 is exactly the same - minus severe disease. I can guarantee you that if H1N1 had been worse, the lab leak theory of its origin would also not have gone away.
  9. 2021-05-15 17:42 Edward C. Holmes open
    Totally. I think the HKU1 story is hugely instructive.

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