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[Robert Garry] Agree with all this - yeah fishy - but very troubling especially if the second round was worse than the first in some cases. Obvious huge implications for vaccines (ADE). May need to reprioritize human monoclonals. [2020-09-06 08:42:16] [Robert Garry] https://tulane.edu/covid-19/dashboard Love it or hate it - I've insisted on a transparent process for the COVID testing program at Tulane and the admin agreed. The university has been "completely open" for classes about two weeks (students started to come on campus August 10. A treasure-trove of data on transmission amongst young nearly all asymptomatic individuals and their aggressively sought out contacts who are placed in quarantine. Interestingly, at least half of the new cases last week showed up in the quarantined students. [2020-09-06 10:04:39] [Andrew Rambaut] I am quoted in support of SARS-CoV-2 coming from space: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7358766/ ! [2020-09-06 11:12:26] [Kristian Andersen] The fact that US colleges are still trying to open up - it makes my blood boil as it puts the communities they are in at risk and makes it near impossible to open much more critical things, such as primary school. Do the fucking teaching online - it cannot be done! Nice quote Andrew - "Don't think any epidemiologist is still thinking that a non-human animal reservoir has had anything to do with the nCoV-2019 epidemic since December. Certainly the genome data doesn't support that." I'm not quite sure that supports their theory though... [2020-09-06 11:37:08] [Andrew Rambaut] Well, once you rule out spillover from animals, what do you have left? Oh, OK, sick miners and mislabelled samples and nefarious goings on in labs. But then space would be the next thing on the list. [2020-09-06 11:39:49] [Andrew Rambaut] We start start in 2 weeks. Because students are not being forced to be in Edinburgh we have to provide the option to do it entirely online. So everyone I know is going to do it all online. Even if the students are sitting in the dorm room or library or whatever. The teachers will be at home. [2020-09-06 16:14:47] [Robert Garry] "blood boil as it puts the communities they are in at risk" - Agree - we'll see - I think you just made a testable hypothesis. [2020-09-06 16:25:24] [Robert Garry] yes - great quote! Agree - "space would be the next thing on the list" - what else? Love the fact that the first *Keyword is:* Diseases from space... I do think to be even more "convincing" the theory needs to account for "who" is loading these comets with these near perfect pathogens. [2020-09-06 16:47:10] [Eddie Holmes] Is this a thing? A journo just sent it to me: [shared file(s): PIIS2211124720311748.pdf] [2020-09-06 16:57:47] [Kristian Andersen] Yup, common sneaky anti-virus mechanism - it appears SARS2 might be especially good at doing this.