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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.895 · slack_pm:msg:09282

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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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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.

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  1. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-05-30 at 3.23.27 pm.png
  2. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    shared file(s): m.pdf
  3. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    So, the point is that this confirms Shi's story of what happened.
  4. 2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Which part?
  5. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes
    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.
  6. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    This is also the first reported tree with SARS-CoV-2 in.
  7. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    Might not be much but it is at least consistent.
  8. 2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Ahhh, I see what you're saying - this tree contains *everything* relevant they have, including RaTG13, which is very very close if you only consider RdRp. If she was concerned about similarity because it came from the lab, she would have taken out 4991 - it's very very close in the tree, but once you have the full sequence, you know it ain't it, but you don't from just the RdRp fragment.
  9. 2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open
    Yes, that's it.

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