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title: Private channel session 1475
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A slack conversation of 15 messages spanning 0h 20m.

# Metadata

- **Started:** 2021-06-04T07:18:45
- **Ended:** 2021-06-04T07:39:07
- **Duration:** 0h 20m
- **Participants:** 3
- **Source:** [slack_pm](/sources/slack-pm.md)
- **Pages:** 916-917

# 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

**[2021-06-04T07:18:45] Kristian G. Andersen:** I hadn't actually thought about the possibility of additional spillovers. Would immediately invalidate the lab leak -although, of course, there's a lab there too... A good one. And they're working on CoVs...

**[2021-06-04T07:23:56] Andrew Rambaut:** What did you mean by 'reintroductions'? Imports from global?

**[2021-06-04T07:24:36] Kristian G. Andersen:** Yeah, sorry - I meant new/additional. Not "re"

**[2021-06-04T07:25:41] Andrew Rambaut:** I should offer to be a consultant to design a genome that would categorically disprove the lab leak.

**[2021-06-04T07:25:58] Andrew Rambaut:** Or that it started in the USA

**[2021-06-04T07:26:18] Andrew Rambaut:** (more tricky - you would have to plant it in the US

**[2021-06-04T07:26:42] Robert F. Garry:** I nominate San Diego!

**[2021-06-04T07:27:16] Robert F. Garry:** Or, if you think NOLA would do - I'm your guy!

**[2021-06-04T07:27:31] Kristian G. Andersen:** Currently the most believable root is a US sequence, sooo....

**[2021-06-04T07:27:48] Andrew Rambaut:** I wa thinking Chapel Hill

**[2021-06-04T07:28:31] Kristian G. Andersen:** Payback for Deep Throat bs email Epic.

**[2021-06-04T07:28:33] Robert F. Garry:** WA-1 or something even earlier in Chapel HIll - love it!

**[2021-06-04T07:36:49] Robert F. Garry:** Angie and SG [shared file(s): We may never know where the virus came from. But evidence still suggests nature. -The Washington Post.pdf]

**[2021-06-04T07:37:41] Kristian G. Andersen:** Any good? Won't be able to read for an hour or so..

**[2021-06-04T07:39:07] Robert F. Garry:** It's fine - 99% of the public's eyes will glaze over - the head's of the TFHs and Bloomshitters will explode...