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A caveat to the findings are that the assays deployed are research-use-only assays or laboratory-based assays that are not FDA-approved for clinical use. However, comparison of N and S assays on a panel of New Orleans healthcare workers (HCW) showed a 100% correlation to the Abbott Architect antibody immunoassay, which has been granted FDA Emergency Use Authorization (Lau et al., 2020). The results presented suggest that some Sierra Leoneans have been exposed to a betacoronavirus that presents multiple cross-reactive epitopes with SARS-CoV-2 or it's protein antigens. While MERS-CoV, a betacoronavirus, has been detected in dromedary camels in Africa (Kandeil et al., 2019) and alphacoronaviruses have been detected in bats in Ghana (Pfefferle et al., 2009) there has been limited sampling of CoVs in African wildlife. There are only a few studies of the prevalence of infections with seasonal CoVs [HKU1, OC43, NL64 and 229E] in Africans (Kiyuka et al., 2018; Subramoney et al., 2018). Thus, the extent of CoV diversity circulating in animals and humans in Africa is largely unknown. Despite these shortcomings we consider that is it important to share these results so that they may be confirmed [or disproven] and extended to other countries in Africa. Additional confirmatory experiments, including neutralization tests, are in progress. [2020-10-07 17:32:02] [Kristian Andersen] Quick read, looks good to me - let's get it on Virological... :wink: (I'm out until next week, so expect silence from me for a few days - oh, the bliss). [2020-10-07 19:37:11] [Eddie Holmes] Great job Bob! Have a good break Kristian. [2020-10-08 07:44:15] [Andrew Rambaut] You had this email `Dr. Yan 2nd Report: SARS-CoV-2 Is an Unrestricted Bioweapon` ? [2020-10-08 07:45:07] [Andrew Rambaut] Going to stay out of this one altogether. At least the main media isn't going to take it seriously I would imagine. [2020-10-08 08:40:01] [Robert Garry] I'm not yet blessed with this report. Yes likely another dud, but fodder for the "base." [2020-10-08 08:57:44] [Robert Garry] As for the Great Barrington Declaration it is as suspected bankrolled by the Trumpist right-wing "American Institute for Economic Research (AIER)" https://www.aier.org/. AIER is linked to Philip-Morris and the DeVos cabal. [2020-10-08 12:05:57] [Robert Garry] This channel visited Sunetra's "Oxford" model back in July. Eddie linked to an AIER article. Also seems her linkage to AIER goes back at least to then. hmmmm. [2020-10-08 14:55:01] [Eddie Holmes] Poor Great Barrington, MA. Tarnished forever. [2020-10-08 14:57:07] [Eddie Holmes] Very interesting link to the AIER. Very revealing! [2020-10-08 21:30:05] [Eddie Holmes]