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Just discovered it is preprinted. Enjoy: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-95183/v1 [2020-11-14 11:57:11] [Eddie Holmes] May the Lord save us from machine learning. [2020-11-14 12:03:59] [Andrew Rambaut] I hope this doesn't get picked up by the media before they get the reviews back. [2020-11-14 12:04:38] [Andrew Rambaut] And Nuno just confirmed - the hospital with all the dead patients was only sequencing dead patients. [2020-11-14 12:07:05] [Eddie Holmes] So bloody clueless. Extraordinary. [2020-11-14 12:14:31] [Robert Garry] Had a look at the preprint Andrew - sad actually. The V to F at 1179 of spike is not likely to do much of anything. [2020-11-14 12:40:10] [Robert Garry] "Amateur 'science' has been a dangerous thing during COVID-19 - I believe Ed has an article coming up about that..." Good to hear! Unfortunately some of the amateurs - like Alina and her new buddies - continue to do damage. @Covidfaker and some other "experts" also spread a lot of bad advice very widely. At least 45 and associated clowns are on the way out.... [2020-11-14 14:49:59] [Eddie Holmes] Yes, it's amazing that people think they are qualified to hold forth. Look at Relman in PNAS. [2020-11-14 15:03:10] [Eddie Holmes] Just screened and rejected a corker from bioRixv - "Genomic variants at the Spike regions of SARS-CoV-2 provide insights on the mortality of population: comparative study with higher spice-intake countries". Contains the following: [2020-11-14 15:03:29] [Eddie Holmes] "Data shows that the higher spice-intake countries also have higher recovery rate and lower-mortality than the lower spice-intake individuals, presumably due to the antibody production." "In contrast, frameshift-type mutation (which tends to have deleterious effect in the protein 3D structure) predominates in the higher spice-intake individuals resulting in higher-recovery / lower-mortality rate, presumably due to attenuated (weaker) coronavirus." [2020-11-15 06:00:40] [Robert Garry] "_Thank you Alina Chan for peer-reviewing this article."_ https://medium.com/@mygenomix/fearsome-viruses-and-where-to-find-them-4e6b0ac6e602 [2020-11-15 06:02:27] [Robert Garry] I like the picture..the rest not so much