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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.851 [SLACK_001065] · slack_pm:msg:08842

Date: 2021-05-21 15:56
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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As Uncle Joe Biden might say this is a BFD! Here, we report the genome characterization and viral receptor analysis of a novel lineage of SARSr-CoVs in Tongguan town, Mojiang county, Yunnan province in China in 2015, the same location where we found bat RaTG13 in 2013 [1].

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2021-05-21 15:09 Robert F. Garry open

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27999425/
2021-05-21 15:11 Robert F. Garry open

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27535067/
2021-05-21 15:17 Robert F. Garry open

Easy enough to find the research links between WIV, the wildlife rescue and Yang Guoxiang. Looks solid. Avian flu and lions! @Kristian Andersen we might use that last reference in an upcoming application.
2021-05-21 15:41 Kristian G. Andersen open

Completely made up, top to bottom. Tell me this isn't 2003 all over again - WMD this time being WIV (see the resemblance.... :thinking_face:). Total crazy town. https://republicans-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/covid-19_and_the_wuhan_institute_of_virology_19_may_2 021.pdf
2021-05-21 15:56 Robert F. Garry

As Uncle Joe Biden might say this is a BFD! Here, we report the genome characterization and viral receptor analysis of a novel lineage of SARSr-CoVs in Tongguan town, Mojiang county, Yunnan province in China in 2015, the same location where we found bat RaTG13 in 2013 [1].
2021-05-21 15:58 Edward C. Holmes open

BFD. Let's hope it's published before the war starts.
2021-05-21 15:58 Kristian G. Andersen open

Very interesting - I love how they totally do not drop a beat. Interesting viruses - maybe pangolins after all? I'm glad they gave Jesse his eight mysterious viruses. Turns out they weren't SARS-CoV-2 :man-shrugging: (ANY idiot would realize this if not so deep into crazy land)
2021-05-21 15:59 Kristian G. Andersen open

Hybrid pangolin / mink / whatever farming happening in China? Hubei?
2021-05-21 16:02 Edward C. Holmes open

Don't rule out those pangolins! Zheng-Li Shi has nerves of steel....

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