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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.1032 [SLACK_001246] · slack_pm:msg:10789

Date: 2021-11-26 10:05
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry
Topics: Masks, lockdowns and NPIs

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"The infections were detected in a man who had returned to Hong Kong from South Africa this month, and later in another man staying across the hall in the same quarantine hotel. (Hong Kong requires almost all overseas arrivalsto quarantine in hotels for two to three weeks.) *The virus's genetic sequence was identical in both men*, suggesting airborne transmission, according to the city's Center for Health Protection. Both men were vaccinated." Sequences don't look identical on the tree...

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"The infections were detected in a man who had returned to Hong Kong from South Africa this month, and later in another man staying across the hall in the same quarantine hotel.	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	asserts
(Hong Kong requires almost all overseas arrivalsto quarantine in hotels for two to three weeks.) The virus's genetic sequence was identical in both men, suggesting airborne transmission, according to the city's Center for Health Protection.	quoted / not their view	quoted_external inside quotation marks	reports

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"The infections were detected in a man who had returned to Hong Kong from South Africa this month, and later in another man staying across the hall in the same quarantine hotel.

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(Hong Kong requires almost all overseas arrivalsto quarantine in hotels for two to three weeks.) *The virus's genetic sequence was identical in both men*, suggesting airborne transmission, according to the city's Center for Health Protection.

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2021-11-26 09:30 Robert F. Garry open

Let's do it quickly though- I can update the Christmas card if that's helpful...
2021-11-26 09:32 Robert F. Garry open

I'm already getting over-whelmed with media requests - on the big UK radio stations wanted to interview at 11pm - Ididn't...
2021-11-26 09:37 Andrew Rambaut open

What we are waiting for now is genomes from other parts of RSA. The initial genomes were extremely targeted to auniversity outbreak. Interestingly they had already noticed the rise in SGTF in multiple provinces before sequencingNu. There were not doing much genome sequencing so it is a bit of a rush to get samples from across the country.So if the new ones lie outside Jo'burg then that gives an older root and more likely a non-RSA origin. If they are all within Jo'burg clade then point source (possibly across the border in Botswana or somewhere).
2021-11-26 09:42 Andrew Rambaut open

New Botswana ones are quite interspersed and possibly basal: [shared file(s): image.png]
2021-11-26 10:05 Robert F. Garry

"The infections were detected in a man who had returned to Hong Kong from South Africa this month, and later in another man staying across the hall in the same quarantine hotel. (Hong Kong requires almost all overseas arrivalsto quarantine in hotels for two to three weeks.) *The virus's genetic sequence was identical in both men*, suggesting airborne transmission, according to the city's Center for Health Protection. Both men were vaccinated." Sequences don't look identical on the tree...
2021-11-26 10:06 Andrew Rambaut open

Omicron it is!! https://twitter.com/mvankerkhove/status/1464293032115777536
2021-11-26 10:09 Kristian G. Andersen open

Damn - they might not want you anywhere near their origin investigations, but at least they have you signed up asNaming Master! :wink:
2021-11-26 10:10 Kristian G. Andersen open

> they had already noticed the rise in SGTF in multiple provinces before sequencing Nu That bit has me most concerned - although, importantly, we saw exactly the same for beta and that didn't do much outside RSA (for multiple different reasons, mostly just more fit variants).
2021-11-26 10:16 Kristian G. Andersen open

A local company here in San Diego is either going to be extremely pleased or 'effing pissed about this announcement. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-11-26 at 10.15.52.png]

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