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Let's hope it works... [2020-07-27 15:03:41] [Robert Garry] Yeah - that's a good idea - you could get down to the best set of candidates with 10-20 person trials in a few months. Same with the monoclonals, though showing protection in animals before the in-ppl screening would be good. [2020-07-27 15:09:08] [Kristian Andersen] Yup. [2020-07-27 15:09:55] [Kristian Andersen] Okay, so back to topic - Eddie and I just received this from Jon. This is serious !channel, so we need to consider this carefully. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2020-07-27 at 3.08.41 PM.png] [2020-07-27 15:10:22] [Robert Garry] Moderna trial started today in Louisiana BTW [2020-07-27 15:13:06] [Kristian Andersen] Who the hell could this person be? Obviously the person gets some of the details (and intentions) wrong, but everything is otherwise pretty much correct - that is so extremely deep knowledge about how this played out. [2020-07-27 15:14:28] [Andrew Rambaut] Ron talked to someone? He seemed like the one that really wasn't getting the point. [2020-07-27 15:14:58] [Kristian Andersen] I can't imagine this being Christian [2020-07-27 15:15:40] [Kristian Andersen] It's Ron or Marion I assume [2020-07-27 15:15:52] [Andrew Rambaut] No. I talked to Christian at the WHO meeting and we had an interesting chat - he thought it had been circulating in humans for a while before the furin site appeared. [2020-07-27 15:16:11] [Kristian Andersen] Seems like it must be Ron. [2020-07-27 15:16:14] [Andrew Rambaut] I can't see it being Marion either. [2020-07-27 15:17:34] [Kristian Andersen] I would be surprised if Marion was behind this, but I can't rule it out. I'm almost certain it's not Christian. I'm wondering if somebody could have mentioned this to e.g., Baric and then this is actually Baric - he always seemed