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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.895 · slack_pm:msg:09279

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Date
2021-05-29 18:32 (hour precision)
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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  1. 2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, makes sense, no? 4991 is RaTG13
  2. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    So, clearly someone at WIV had tipped him off and told him the virus was like 4991...which is clearly RaTG13. So,that's 2 days after Shi sequenced.
  3. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    On the 6th he sent me this: SLACK_001109
  4. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
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  5. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes
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  6. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    So, the point is that this confirms Shi's story of what happened.
  7. 2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Which part?
  8. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    This is the earliest document on the outbreak from Shi's lab I think. She said that they sequenced SARS-CoV-2 and then screened their databases to see what matched. The only match they had was 4991/RaTG13. No evidence ofanything as close that they then deleted. It also confirms the Addendum to her Nature paper.
  9. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    This is also the first reported tree with SARS-CoV-2 in.

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