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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.873 [SLACK_001087] · slack_pm:msg:09047

Date: 2021-05-25 17:48
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Edward C. Holmes
Topics: Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration Intelligence community assessments

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The story seems to be that an editor of Virologica Sinica who worked at the USAMRID once went to WIV for a journal meeting. I particularly like the bit about Jens Kuhn also being on the editorial board....if Jens were in chargeof WIV they'd have all their viruses beautifully classified by now.

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I particularly like the bit about Jens Kuhn also being on the editorial board....if Jens were in chargeof WIV they'd have all their viruses beautifully classified by now.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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I particularly like the bit about Jens Kuhn also being on the editorial board....if Jens were in chargeof WIV they'd have all their viruses beautifully classified by now.

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2021-05-25 17:38 Kristian G. Andersen open

Is there something wrong with the formatting? Because _*none*_ of this makes any sense whatsoever.
2021-05-25 17:39 Kristian G. Andersen open

It honestly reads like a really terrible Google translation of a Chinese document. Hmmmm :thinking_face:
2021-05-25 17:43 Edward C. Holmes open

It's missing the pictures. Try this: [shared file(s): Re Ugh.pdf]
2021-05-25 17:44 Kristian G. Andersen open

Nope - still the same. Total gibberish. I love the subject line of that email - "Ugh" indeed.
2021-05-25 17:48 Edward C. Holmes

The story seems to be that an editor of Virologica Sinica who worked at the USAMRID once went to WIV for a journal meeting. I particularly like the bit about Jens Kuhn also being on the editorial board....if Jens were in chargeof WIV they'd have all their viruses beautifully classified by now.
2021-05-25 17:50 Edward C. Holmes open

Sharri is totally deranged. Off the scale.
2021-05-25 17:52 Kristian G. Andersen open

Completely off the scale. How this gets past editorial, I just don't understand - they must be desperate for anything lab leak related.
2021-05-25 17:57 Edward C. Holmes open

I would have thought China would be delighted to see USAMRID mentioned.
2021-05-25 18:00 Edward C. Holmes open

Here's an S gene tree with Weifeng's and Shi's new sequence (green). Clearly a distinct lineage. [shared file(s): RAxML_bipartitions.SpikeNT_MSA_tidy.pdf]

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