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title: Private channel session 1168
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A slack conversation of 15 messages spanning 1h 53m.

# Metadata

- **Started:** 2021-03-29T06:42:31
- **Ended:** 2021-03-29T08:35:43
- **Duration:** 1h 53m
- **Participants:** 3
- **Source:** [slack_pm](/sources/slack-pm.md)
- **Pages:** 647-649

# Participants

* [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md)
* [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md)
* [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md)
* [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md)

# Transcript

**[2021-03-29T06:42:31] Robert F. Garry:** Get ready - the WHO report has been leaked....

**[2021-03-29T06:43:43] Andrew Rambaut:** :popcorn:

**[2021-03-29T06:47:52] Kristian G. Andersen:** PDF?

**[2021-03-29T07:11:10] Kristian G. Andersen:** Oh, got it from Jim... [shared file(s): origins.pdf]

**[2021-03-29T07:31:29] Robert F. Garry:** https://www.pnas.org/content/117/17/9241 How good is this analysis?

**[2021-03-29T07:32:22] Robert F. Garry:** Some new info - no Eddie raccoon dog though.

**[2021-03-29T07:37:48] Robert F. Garry:** THey only have one lineage A virus in their early cases.S13 EPI_ISL_529213 Visitor to another market 26 Dec 30 Dec 4946 (ORF1a), 8782 (ORF1a), 28144 (ORF8) S/A

**[2021-03-29T07:38:00] Andrew Rambaut:** https://www.pnas.org/content/117/23/12522?utm_source=TrendMD&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign= Proc_Natl_Acad_Sci_U_S_A_TrendMD_0

**[2021-03-29T07:38:30] Robert F. Garry:** Seems like a missed opportunity with WA-1

**[2021-03-29T07:41:02] Robert F. Garry:** @Andrew Rambaut THANKS! - it didn't quite "smell" right to me, but I'm unqualified to judge specifically.

**[2021-03-29T07:42:39] Robert F. Garry:** *BIG QUESTION HERE*- lot's of media inquiries - can I boot some of these to !channel - if they are "worthy." By worthy I mean top tier outlets?

**[2021-03-29T07:43:54] Robert F. Garry:** @Andrew Rambaut Forster is mentioned in the report in several spots...

**[2021-03-29T07:53:22] Andrew Rambaut:** @Andrew Rambaut It also got 'communicated' by an AAS member that is in the same department as the authors.

**[2021-03-29T08:19:10] Robert F. Garry:** First impressions: 1. The report is very well done. Lot's of very detailed information some of which is new to me. Anyone that wants toclaim that the report is lacking in details will be disappointed. I think that the onus on the lab leak proponents shouldbe to focus on specifics as to what they feel was lacking in the report.2. Intelligence reports that there were sick workers in WIV [and one person's wife died are disputed by the report: "The three laboratories in Wuhan working with either CoVs diagnostics and/or CoVs isolation and vaccine development all had high quality biosafety level (BSL3 or 4) facilities that were well-managed, with a staff healthmonitoring programme with no…

**[2021-03-29T08:35:43] Kristian G. Andersen:** Awesome summary Bob! I haven't had a chance to get my eyes on it yet - but hopefully soon...