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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.916 [SLACK_001130] · slack_pm:msg:09497

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Date
2021-06-04 07:18
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Kristian G. Andersen
Topics
Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesis

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I hadn't actually thought about the possibility of additional spillovers. Would immediately invalidate the lab leak -although, of course, there's a lab there too... A good one. And they're working on CoVs...

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Would immediately invalidate the lab leak -although, of course, there's a lab there too... needs context speaker_own asserts

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  1. 2021-06-04 07:18 Kristian G. Andersen
    I hadn't actually thought about the possibility of additional spillovers. Would immediately invalidate the lab leak -although, of course, there's a lab there too... A good one. And they're working on CoVs...
  2. 2021-06-04 07:23 Andrew Rambaut open
    What did you mean by 'reintroductions'? Imports from global?
  3. 2021-06-04 07:24 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Yeah, sorry - I meant new/additional. Not "re"
  4. 2021-06-04 07:25 Andrew Rambaut open
    I should offer to be a consultant to design a genome that would categorically disprove the lab leak.
  5. 2021-06-04 07:25 Andrew Rambaut open
    Or that it started in the USA

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