Slack / Private Message Drop — page 2

[Eddie Holmes] Yes, both are in the wrong. For China, I think it's a large part about saving face and the perceived shame of being the place where the outbreak started. It has seriously weakened their global standing so they are trying to change the narrative to sow uncertainty around this. Plus the CCP are clearly control freaks: they have to control every message. The word 'SARS' is just toxic to them. The China CDC *are* guilty of bungling the early response to this...but that's cock-up, not conspiracy. [2020-04-30 16:09:46] [Eddie Holmes] Really interested to see this Norwegian/St. Georges thing. [2020-04-30 16:23:34] [Eddie Holmes] Coronavirus US live: intelligence report concludes Covid-19 was not 'manmade or genetically modified' https://www. theguardian.com/world/live/2020/apr/30/coronavirus-us-live-federal-guidelines-social-distancing-expire-trump-cuom o-latest-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_tw&page=with:block-5eab41b68f08f76ffc19f175#block-5eab41b68f08 f76ffc19f175 [2020-04-30 16:36:52] [Eddie Holmes] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52496098 [2020-04-30 16:43:14] [Kristian Andersen] Yes yes, but our Great Leader sets the record straight with some clear language. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2020-04-30 at 4.41.45 PM.png] [2020-04-30 19:59:31] [Eddie Holmes] Parsimony? I thought that was extinct. [2020-04-30 23:23:41] [Andrew Rambaut] Shit. This is Sheffield who are part of our sequencing consortium. [2020-04-30 23:41:53] [Eddie Holmes] "S943P is located in the fusion core region, and is of particular interest as it is spreading via recombination". :thinking_face: [2020-04-30 23:46:12] [Andrew Rambaut] What?! [2020-04-30 23:46:40] [Andrew Rambaut] Brian Foley's hand probably. [2020-05-01 01:14:53] [Andrew Rambaut] That mutation is in the Belgium sequences and they have a number of mutations which are probably spurious and the product of the sequencing (which is being done by someone who is notorious for doing really dumb things with nanopore sequences). [2020-05-01 02:26:26] [Eddie Holmes]