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[Andrew Rambaut] Marion tweeted about it - https://twitter.com/MarionKoopmans/status/1350623362662457347 [2021-01-17 01:11:05] [Eddie Holmes] I hope Peter Daszak is getting rectal temp checks. [2021-01-17 05:55:50] [Robert Garry] Really nice job on the edits Eddie! As for the WHO team I do hope they enjoy their visit. I've not changed my mind about prospects that this will turn out counter-productive. The most likely outcome a bunch of negative "data." 1. no epi links of early cases to WIV; 2. no smoking guns of closer relative than RaTG13 [bats, pangos, whatever]; 3. no records of forced cell culture or animal passage of bat CoVs; 4. no record of accidents that could be spillovers. The straw man of a cover-up that Alina et al have been constructing will be immediately "confirmed," thus "adding" to their evidence of lab escape. [2021-01-17 07:27:56] [Robert Garry] Fish viruses! WuSEIV (pronounced wussy virus). Eddie is keeping the field of virology busy for the next century... Interesting:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.04.425274v1 [2021-01-17 07:37:23] [Robert Garry] This is getting complicated [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-01-17 13:16:37] [Eddie Holmes] I agree to an extent, but to say this when the WHO team are on site is well out of order: https://twitter.com/mbeisen/status/1350495904629809154?s=12 [2021-01-17 13:19:08] [Eddie Holmes] Love the spiny eel flu work by Florian! Made my day. [2021-01-17 15:12:39] [Kristian Andersen] Mike's an idiot - I kinda thought he was okay, but now I realize he's a twat. Interestingly, he also doesn't know the scientific method, which is a little surprising: https://twitter.com/mbeisen/status/1350586615702323200?s=20. [2021-01-17 15:37:13] [Eddie Holmes] Agreed. I've lost all respect for him. [2021-01-17 15:46:16] [Kristian Andersen] His Lander Tweet was still pretty epic though - I give him that... [2021-01-17 18:36:36] [Kristian Andersen] Let's hope this isn't an omen of what is to come: https://virological.org/t/sars-cov-2-reinfection-by-the-new-variant-of-concern-voc-p-1-in-amazonas-brazil/596 [2021-01-17 18:36:53] [Kristian Andersen] [but I suspect it is...]