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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.957 [SLACK_001171] · slack_pm:msg:09961

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Date
2021-06-21 17:35
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker
Andrew Rambaut

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Knew it. It was Gus

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  1. 2021-06-21 17:33 Edward C. Holmes open
    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.
  2. 2021-06-21 17:34 Andrew Rambaut open
    Why are they saying it came from Wuhan? Why not an Italian lab escape? Bonkers
  3. 2021-06-21 17:34 Kristian G. Andersen open
    D614G is pretty much a dead giveaway...
  4. 2021-06-21 17:35 Kristian G. Andersen open
    USAMRIID after all, huh? I hear there's an Italian working there.
  5. 2021-06-21 17:35 Andrew Rambaut
    Knew it. It was Gus
  6. 2021-06-21 17:36 Edward C. Holmes open
    Yes, I love the way it goes from Wuhan and then to Italy :zany_face: For the rooting thing, I think it just needs one statement given that we have the 2 lineages x 2 markets story. It doesn't need to be definitive but just to say it iscomplex.
  7. 2021-06-21 17:36 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Argentinian, I believe, but basically the same, so definitely. Just connecting dots here.
  8. 2021-06-21 17:37 Edward C. Holmes open
    There are a lot Italians in Argentina...
  9. 2021-06-21 17:37 Edward C. Holmes open
    Diego Maradona played for Napoli

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