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[Eddie Holmes] Yes, I approved this at bioRxiv. Still, how it places out in the epidemiological context is way more complicated. To me, local epidemiology is a far more important driver. [2020-09-30 17:01:39] [Kristian Andersen] No doubt. [2020-09-30 17:40:58] [Eddie Holmes] I assume you saw this paper by Shi? Perhaps we even discussed it. Pretty interesting. Notable that Rhinolophus sinicus bats are in Hubei and have a range of ACE2 receptors. [shared file(s): Journal of Virology-2020-Guo-e00902-20.full.pdf] [2020-09-30 17:50:53] [Kristian Andersen] Nope haven't seen it - need to read it! [2020-09-30 17:56:56] [Eddie Holmes] I've not read it carefully either. Let me know you think. [2020-10-01 19:39:46] [Kristian Andersen] Eddie Holmes is no longer my friend on Twitter :crying_cat_face: - Eddie, I take this as my queue to shut up... :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:. In better news - we can only hope... [pun intended] https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/01/us/trump-vs-biden?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtyp e=Homepage#hope-hicks-coronavirus [2020-10-01 19:43:35] [Kristian Andersen] Pretty interesting genomic report from New Zealand (confidential for now, I assume) that looks well-reasoned: https://nextstrain.org/community/narratives/ESR-NZ/GenomicsNarrativeSARSCoV2/2020-10-01 [2020-10-01 19:48:09] [Robert Garry] This looks weird: https://osf.io/s4td6/ There was a simultaneous outbreak of the zoonotic Nipah henipavirus in Wuhan - 4 out of 5 patients have the virus in Jinyintan Hospital , along with SARS-Cov2, in their metagenome - which seems to have resolved by itself *AUTHORS* Sandeep Chakraborty [2020-10-01 19:50:38] [Robert Garry] But yes if not prayers we at least have hope! Either he gets it or a HCQ/Azithromycin overdose. [2020-10-01 19:52:50] [Kristian Andersen] Hmmmm that IS weird. Presumably though, if these reads are real surely they must be contamination from other sequencing experiments at WIV. [2020-10-01 19:53:41] [Kristian Andersen]