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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.957 [SLACK_001171] · slack_pm:msg:09957

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Date
2021-06-21 17:33
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes

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It was sent to me by someone who was reviewing it for advice and I said it was almost certainly just contamination from the major Italian wave...notable that they are getting the sequences from the patients that are PCR negative.

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  1. 2021-06-21 17:31 Andrew Rambaut open
    @Kristian Andersen We talk about the 2 haplotypes (I think we should add the 3rd). We can just say that the 1100mutations to bat makes it impossible and cite Sergeis reply to the Forsters. I will come up with something in the morning
  2. 2021-06-21 17:31 Kristian G. Andersen open
    OMG, he mentioned "early cases in Europe" on the call yesterday and how "all the timing may well change". Come on - this is dumb. I didn't want to get into an argument about it on the call, but come on guys. :face_with_rolling_eyes:
  3. 2021-06-21 17:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I'm sure Chairman Xi will welcome this paper with open arms.
  4. 2021-06-21 17:32 Kristian G. Andersen open
    @Kristian Andersen Awesome.
  5. 2021-06-21 17:33 Edward C. Holmes
    It was sent to me by someone who was reviewing it for advice and I said it was almost certainly just contamination from the major Italian wave...notable that they are getting the sequences from the patients that are PCR negative.
  6. 2021-06-21 17:34 Andrew Rambaut open
    Why are they saying it came from Wuhan? Why not an Italian lab escape? Bonkers
  7. 2021-06-21 17:34 Kristian G. Andersen open
    D614G is pretty much a dead giveaway...
  8. 2021-06-21 17:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
    USAMRIID after all, huh? I hear there's an Italian working there.
  9. 2021-06-21 17:35 Andrew Rambaut open
    Knew it. It was Gus

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