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Totally bonkers. But I'll take a declining trend over an increasing trend or a plateau (the US favorite) any day. [2021-01-18 13:36:25] [Eddie Holmes] True [2021-01-18 13:39:40] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-01-18 10:26:32] @Kristian Andersen Although we have had 4 or 5 cases of spontaneous addition of Eeek to B.1.1.7 - none seem like they are spreading but they are ready to go. [2021-01-18 13:39:53] [Eddie Holmes] "Djokovic is a tool," Kyrgios, ranked 47th in the world, said on Twitter after the latest reports. [2021-01-18 13:40:21] [Eddie Holmes] I'm loving this tennis thing. [2021-01-18 13:41:13] [Robert Garry] !channel I suspect that the pending little virological post, which brings most of the PO1 band back together, on such a hot topic will attract attention...an opportunity perhaps for a bit of public service messaging that "vaccines are not going to be a silver bullet." [2021-01-18 13:41:49] [Eddie Holmes] Yes, excellent point. [2021-01-18 13:42:13] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-01-18 10:26:32] @Kristian Andersen @Andrew Rambaut - have you seen any data from the UK about neutralization studies from these variants? It's unclear to me why the data is taking this long, so surely some must have been produced? [2021-01-18 13:42:16] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-01-18 10:26:32] @Kristian Andersen Need to very rapidly get the numbers down as we vaccinate. The point is that NPI do get R<1 so with vaccine as well it should be possible to avoid escape.. [2021-01-18 13:43:25] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-01-18 10:26:32] @Kristian Andersen Yes - although I prefer the initial drop of R<1 is done by NPIs first, followed by vaccination - not attempt to do the other way around. We'll learn A LOT from Israel. [2021-01-18 17:31:44] [Robert Garry] I'm starting to see a sort of theme re Alina's buddies. Here's another "work" by the author of the NYMag article quoted in the indels paper: _*House of Holes: A Book of Raunch*_ is a 2011 novel by American writer Nicholson Baker. It consists of a series of chapters that are more or less connected (some more, some less) which tell of the sexual and emotional experiences of a variety of characters in a kind of sexual fantasy land, the titular "House of Holes".[1] The third "dirty novel" by Baker after _Vox_ and _The Fermata_,[2] it is praised by many reviewers for the