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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.1032 [SLACK_001246] · slack_pm:msg:10793

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Date
2021-11-26 10:16
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Kristian G. Andersen

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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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  1. 2021-11-26 10:05 Robert F. Garry open
    "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...
  2. 2021-11-26 10:06 Andrew Rambaut open
    Omicron it is!! https://twitter.com/mvankerkhove/status/1464293032115777536
  3. 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:
  4. 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).
  5. 2021-11-26 10:16 Kristian G. Andersen
    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]
  6. 2021-11-26 10:17 Andrew Rambaut open
    Delta Airlines will be happy if we move on
  7. 2021-11-26 10:18 Andrew Rambaut open
    And I can't imagine why they skipped xi

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