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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.1038 [SLACK_001252] · slack_pm:msg:10856

Date: 2021-12-12 17:11
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recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen

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Although I have not dug into this in detail myself, I'm fairly certain Bill got this wrong - because, convergent evolution.https://virological.org/t/omicron-is-a-multiply-recombinant-set-of-variants-that-have-evolved-over-many-months/775

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preprint https://virological.org/t/omicron-is-a-multiply-recombinant-set-of-variants-that-have-evolved-over-many-months/775

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2021-12-12 16:28 Robert F. Garry open

WE have about a 100 cases of Omicron on the undergrad campus - they are sending everyone not infected yet home...
2021-12-12 16:36 Kristian G. Andersen open

Lovely jubbly. I'm sure that'll stop it. We seem to be seeing very rapid growth here in San Diego too - unsurprising, of course, but as soon as we had detected that first one, :chart_with_upwards_trend:
2021-12-12 17:11 Kristian G. Andersen

Although I have not dug into this in detail myself, I'm fairly certain Bill got this wrong - because, convergent evolution.https://virological.org/t/omicron-is-a-multiply-recombinant-set-of-variants-that-have-evolved-over-many-months/775

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