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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.1025 [SLACK_001239] · slack_pm:msg:10704

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Date
2021-11-24 08:22
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry

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Oh boy - it's getting more polybasic - that's not good....

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  1. 2021-11-24 07:30 Andrew Rambaut open
    And a bit of FCS adjacent action... [shared file(s): image.png]
  2. 2021-11-24 07:30 Andrew Rambaut open
    Plus 69/70 del and the nsp6 del
  3. 2021-11-24 07:36 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Holy shit - that is quite something. The length of that branch... :scream:. What's the N/S on the branch?
  4. 2021-11-24 07:41 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Just had a look at the list of mutations - so nuts. Getting rid of a lot of serines (although also adding some new ones...) and adding in lysine - the friggin' genome is going to be made out of lysines at some point! Just nuts.
  5. 2021-11-24 08:22 Robert F. Garry
    Oh boy - it's getting more polybasic - that's not good....
  6. 2021-11-24 08:23 Andrew Rambaut open
    It must surely be from a immunocompromised chronic infection. Possibly a dual infection with recombination and heavy mutation. But the random traveller in HK has me very worried
  7. 2021-11-24 08:24 Andrew Rambaut open
    Visited South Africa for 20 days - must be a much more prevalent virus than the sequencing suggests
  8. 2021-11-24 08:24 Andrew Rambaut open
    Will cause S gene dropout and I think SA is seeing some signal of that apparently
  9. 2021-11-24 08:29 Kristian G. Andersen open
    HIV patient or animal reservoir - I'll say 70/30 odds.

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