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Confidentially, I heard that George knew before Dec. 30.... [2020-08-17 16:50:54] [Kristian Andersen] Very interesting article... I have a *really* hard time believing that George didn't know until 12/30 - that seems, well, surprising. [2020-08-17 17:05:34] [Eddie Holmes] It's also counter to what I heard. We'll see. George is really after Zhang at the moment: his grants have been blocked in a pathetic display of revenge. Egos are out of control. Not sure the National Health Commission are going to like this article. Will be interesting to watch the fall-out. [2020-08-17 18:00:16] [Robert Garry] Agree - very dumb - layer on top the idiots currently in charge of US-China policy. Gao is wrong about GVP, but some more Bat CoV sequencing would be prudent. [2020-08-17 19:20:11] [Eddie Holmes] There will be a lot of bloodletting in China. Totally unnecessary. [2020-08-18 02:21:31] [Eddie Holmes] Did you see this one by the way. Shocker: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202000091#.XzuQZz-nCHx.twitter [2020-08-18 02:30:37] [Eddie Holmes] A low point in the history of BioEssays. [2020-08-18 05:30:22] [Robert Garry] Offered without comment: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/18/asia/wuhan-water-park-party-intl-hnk/index.html [2020-08-18 05:33:00] [Andrew Rambaut] This can't be safe, surely: [2020-08-18 05:57:40] [Robert Garry] More evidence for Co-met Co-ronavirus? [2020-08-18 14:46:01] [Eddie Holmes] I think the one from the Wuhan Institute of Virology has a leak. [2020-08-18 16:59:12] [Kristian Andersen] "prominent virologists and other eminent scientists" - I believe this is us? :clap: [2020-08-18 17:02:30] [Kristian Andersen] I love their discussion of the furin site - "This furin cleavage site, *which is poly or multibasic by definition since its composed of multiple basic amino acids*". Smart people, them.