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[2022-01-14 13:14:00] [Andrew Rambaut] She replied with a lot of follow up but I have asked to switch to background for now. [2022-01-14 13:16:20] [Andrew Rambaut] Anyone have the timeline? When did we circulate a first draft to the group? She is saying 3 days after the call? [2022-01-14 13:16:21] [Kristian Andersen] Hmmm, not sure you want to give me information? Do you know this journalist and do you know if she's genuinely interested in understanding the science? Because if not, I wouldn't give any further details. [2022-01-14 13:16:36] [Kristian Andersen] shared file(s): February 4 document.pdf, February 6 document.pdf [2022-01-14 13:16:38] [Eddie Holmes] I was quite forceful in my response. I'm not answering any more. [2022-01-14 13:17:05] [Kristian Andersen] Emails out on Feb 4 and Feb 7 [2022-01-14 13:17:13] [Kristian Andersen] (with those two documents) [2022-01-14 13:18:08] [Kristian Andersen] These documents will become public at some point and I think we need to figure out a way to get them released before they do. They are _great_ so there are no concerns there, but we all know what happens if DRASTIC picks these up first [2022-01-14 13:18:25] [Andrew Rambaut] I an not going to give further information. But as background I can state some known truths - i.e. Fauci and Collins don't personally hand out grants [2022-01-14 13:18:35] [Eddie Holmes] They are only interested in the narrative that Tony told us to think for political reasons. I said that was total nonsense etc. [2022-01-14 13:19:12] [Kristian Andersen] Yup - and I'd leave it at that. Once we mention that drafts were circulated on certain dates, people would want to see those. [2022-01-14 13:21:19] [Kristian Andersen] It's public knowledge that a draft was circulated on Feb 4, but I'm not sure about Feb 7. What needs to be very clear is that WE wrote the paper and there were NO edits from e.g., Christian and Ron (and certainly none from Tony or Francis - I think maybe Jeremy had a few minor edits). The paper was peer reviewed and that obviously led to several additional changes to the final version. The original version from Virological is here: https://t.co/nOddbnq2K5