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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.896 · slack_pm:msg:09298

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

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After that realization, you have _got_ to ask yourself "did 4991 just escape from WIV". There's just no other way around it - would love to know what happened the days right after.

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After that realization, you have _got_ to ask yourself "did 4991 just escape from WIV".	quoted / not their view	quoted_external sentence carries quotation marks	asserts

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After that realization, you have _got_ to ask yourself "did 4991 just escape from WIV".

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2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah, I'm thinking it's somebody who got a short RdRp fragment, did a blast, pulled down related / relevant sequences and created the tree. That wouldn't really mean much - unless, of course, it came from Shi's group. Would be good to ask.
2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open

I've just emailed him. I agree though...it does look like a GenBank compilation.
2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open

It's the hope that gets you.
2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open

|_would_ love to know what happened after that tree was circulated though - image getting that hit, seeing how close 4991 is and then looking up the metadata [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-05-29 at 10.51.15 PM.png]
2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen

After that realization, you have _got_ to ask yourself "did 4991 just escape from WIV". There's just no other way around it - would love to know what happened the days right after.
2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open

Totally! Notice that I did not destroy the file either.
2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open

Hah, I *did* notice that... Shame on you :wink:
2021-05-29 18:32 Edward C. Holmes open

So, let's wait for I'll now look at the main doc....I see the comments run for about 3 pages longer...
2021-05-29 18:32 Kristian G. Andersen open

SLACK_001111 Image seeing all of this though, freaking out about this having come from the lab, surely the next thing one would dowould go and 'plant' the virus in some random animal from the market. It had been shut down just a couple of days before.IfI had to cover up a lab leak, that's what I would do - not whatever the fuck is happening right now.

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