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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.1083 [SLACK_001297] · slack_pm:msg:11281

Date: 2022-02-03 07:15
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker: Andrew Rambaut
Topics: Proximal Origin paper Media strategy and public messaging

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Seems like they have also given Fox News the tip-off: ```Good morning, Could you please comment on the letter you were sent this morning by Republican members of the House of Representatives asking for clarification on why you originally suspected the COVID-19 virus was possibly man created before then suggesting otherwise in the Nature Medicine report entitled, "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2." Do you still hold the belief the virus was naturally occurring? Have you faced any pressure from Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins to downplay the potential of a man-made virus, as the letter suggested? Thank you,Caitlin McFallPolitics Reporter Fox News```

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Seems like they have also given Fox News the tip-off: ```Good morning, Could you please comment on the letter you were sent this morning by Republican members of the House of Representatives asking for clarification on why you originally suspected the COVID-19 virus was possibly man created before then suggesting otherwise in the Nature Medicine report entitled, "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2." Do you still hold the belief the virus was naturally occurring?	quoted / not their view	quoted_external sentence carries quotation marks	questions

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2022-02-03 07:15 Andrew Rambaut

Seems like they have also given Fox News the tip-off: ```Good morning, Could you please comment on the letter you were sent this morning by Republican members of the House of Representatives asking for clarification on why you originally suspected the COVID-19 virus was possibly man created before then suggesting otherwise in the Nature Medicine report entitled, "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2." Do you still hold the belief the virus was naturally occurring? Have you faced any pressure from Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins to downplay the potential of a man-made virus, as the letter suggested? Thank you,Caitlin McFallPolitics Reporter Fox News```
2022-02-03 07:35 Kristian G. Andersen open

Got the same. Maybe worth answering "yes" and "no"?
2022-02-03 07:42 Kristian G. Andersen open

As to the letter - @Andrew Rambaut you should pass this on to your university to respond. I assume you won't comply, but it's important to understand that further requests will come. Congress can subpoena foreign nationalsand while they can't do anything directly if you refuse to appear, it could/will have consequences for future travel tothe US.They can't subpoena any of us at the moment (unless they get bipartisan support - we have already looked into that and that seems unlikely), but all of that changes in November.
2022-02-03 08:27 Andrew Rambaut open

And I would answer 'I didn't', 'yes', 'no'
2022-02-03 08:29 Kristian G. Andersen open

Hah - simple!

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