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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.1103 [SLACK_001317] · slack_pm:msg:11503

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Date
2022-04-08 07:23
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes
speaker
Andrew Rambaut

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Perhaps it was circulating all the time but is now in a slight advantage due to the unusual immune landscape in RSA.Or....

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  1. 2022-04-08 07:22 Andrew Rambaut open
    Tulio is cooking these up in his GOF lab
  2. 2022-04-08 07:22 Andrew Rambaut open
    No - MRCA within BA.4
  3. 2022-04-08 07:22 Andrew Rambaut open
    It is weird
  4. 2022-04-08 07:22 Andrew Rambaut open
    Doesn't look like a new selective sweep.
  5. 2022-04-08 07:23 Andrew Rambaut
    Perhaps it was circulating all the time but is now in a slight advantage due to the unusual immune landscape in RSA.Or....
  6. 2022-04-08 07:23 Andrew Rambaut open
    perhaps we are all fucked again
  7. 2022-04-08 07:24 Andrew Rambaut open
    There are details in the UKHSA tech briefing today
  8. 2022-04-08 07:24 Kristian G. Andersen open
    I'm pretty darn convinced BA.1 infection leads to pretty crappy immunity so a slight advantage in evasion while maintaining R0, well...
  9. 2022-04-08 07:25 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Pretty sure that's what BA.2 did as well (while being even more transmissible - which is unreal!)

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