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type: Released Document Package
title: Slack / Private Message Drop
description: Exported private chat transcripts among scientists discussing COVID-19 origins.
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  - covid-19
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page_count: 1123
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---

Exported private chat transcripts among scientists discussing COVID-19 origins.

# Extraction summary

- **Pages:** 1123
- **Documents extracted:** 11733 (emails 0, chat messages 11733, diary entries 0)
- **Date range of content:** 2020-04-30T16:09:46 to 2023-06-28T20:44:44
- **Pages recovered by OCR:** 1
- **Pages still without usable text:** 0
- **SHA-256:** `c7717f016c4385e25de3fd1bdc2989c5f8f3ab6d496f346d3a74953729c2c89b`

# Principal figures

* [Kristian G. Andersen](/people/kristian-g-andersen.md) - 11985 documents
* [Edward C. Holmes](/people/edward-c-holmes.md) - 11944 documents
* [Andrew Rambaut](/people/andrew-rambaut.md) - 11929 documents
* [Robert F. Garry](/people/robert-f-garry.md) - 11835 documents
* Uslackbot - 1 documents
* Uslackbot - 1 documents

# Dominant topics

* [Intelligence community assessments](/topics/intelligence-community.md) - 375 documents
* [Natural origin / zoonotic spillover](/topics/natural-origin.md) - 373 documents
* [Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesis](/topics/lab-leak-origin.md) - 273 documents
* [Furin cleavage site and molecular features](/topics/molecular-features.md) - 268 documents
* [Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration](/topics/wiv-collaboration.md) - 252 documents
* [Vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md) - 236 documents
* [Proximal Origin paper](/topics/proximal-origin.md) - 112 documents
* [FOIA, records and transparency](/topics/foia-transparency.md) - 67 documents