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Or that it started in the USA

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2021-06-04 07:18 Kristian G. Andersen open

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...
2021-06-04 07:23 Andrew Rambaut open

What did you mean by 'reintroductions'? Imports from global?
2021-06-04 07:24 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yeah, sorry - I meant new/additional. Not "re"
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.
2021-06-04 07:25 Andrew Rambaut

Or that it started in the USA
2021-06-04 07:26 Andrew Rambaut open

(more tricky - you would have to plant it in the US
2021-06-04 07:26 Robert F. Garry open

I nominate San Diego!
2021-06-04 07:27 Robert F. Garry open

Or, if you think NOLA would do - I'm your guy!
2021-06-04 07:27 Kristian G. Andersen open

Currently the most believable root is a US sequence, sooo....