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[Robert Garry] I think you should use the opportunity to point out yes Eddie's fish virus [if you seek you find] but that surveillance of emerging pathogens in humans is a MUCH MORE direct and cost-effective strategy to respond to pandemic threats. What are we supposed to do - spend a couple of billion and make vaccines to these viruses? Just my 2 cents. [2020-10-02 17:03:32] [Eddie Holmes] Great point! A Science journalist wants talk about the paper so I will stress that. [2020-10-02 23:01:39] [Eddie Holmes] By the way, Nicholas Wade has *a lot* of baggage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Wade [2020-10-02 23:01:55] [Eddie Holmes] https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2014/08/09/our-letter-to-the-new-york-times-criticizing-nicholas-wades-book-on-race/ [2020-10-02 23:25:27] [Robert Garry] Thanks for the reminder re Wade. More shoes dropping re Team MAGAA. The Saturday Rose Garden nomination of ACB and the attendant indoor dinners etc is looking like a super-spreading event. Another hub likely was debate prep sessions. Could be lots of other shoes to drop in the Trump family inner circle. [2020-10-02 23:40:30] [Eddie Holmes] Amazing stuff re: team MAGA. You really couldn't make this stuff up. [2020-10-03 01:09:34] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2020-10-02 15:18:47] @Kristian Andersen In avian flu it is appears when the virus enters high density chicken flocks (i.e., from wild populations). For CoV I can imagine it being selected for in farmed animals. I doubt it was selected for in humans but that is just a hunch. Once in humans, selection is maintaining it against a within host tendency to loose it (i.e., the deletion papers). [2020-10-03 07:22:09] [Kristian Andersen] Imagine that - NOBODY could have predicted that something like this could have happened.... Such a bunch of idiots - plain and simple. [2020-10-03 08:10:15] [Robert Garry] One month and maybe - just maybe - the beginning of the end of the clown show. [2020-10-03 08:39:02] [Robert Garry] Holy shit Chris Christy positive test. [2020-10-03 08:51:08] [Kristian Andersen] The only positive thing ever said about Chris Christy. [2020-10-03 09:19:27] [Robert Garry]