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[2021-01-19 19:01:13] [Kristian Andersen] So unnecessary. [2021-01-19 19:06:56] [Eddie Holmes] Untypical of Carl as well. [2021-01-19 19:12:12] [Kristian Andersen] Bad day at the office. :man-shrugging: [2021-01-19 19:17:27] [Eddie Holmes] Journos just can't help telling the story they want [2021-01-19 21:59:40] [Kristian Andersen] Noisy, but growth rate of B.1.1.7 in Jordan similar to UK, DK, Portugal, Ireland, and all the other places... [shared file(s): Log_growth.png] [2021-01-19 22:57:31] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-01-19 22:57:31] I have not read it yet - but he asked reasonable questions... https://www.cnet.com/features/the-hunt-for-covid-19s-origin-and-the-lab-leak-theory/ [2021-01-19 23:17:55] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-01-19 23:17:55] Just taken a look at the UK data - we have 3 clusters of L452R that are completely independent of the Californian one. 2 are quite large. [2021-01-19 23:22:53] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-01-19 22:57:31] @Kristian Andersen Daszak's involvement in the WHO investigation is like "having Donald Trump run the investigation of Russian hacking of the 2016 election." [2021-01-20 00:31:45] [Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2021-01-19 22:57:31] @Kristian Andersen But that's from Rowan Jacobsen who's a strong conspiracy theorist - he wrote that terrible Boston Mag story. I declined to talk to the CNET journo. That Frutos is a weird bloke. I haven't got a fucking clue what his 'circulation' model is all about: [shared file(s): SSRN-id3733527.pdf] [2021-01-20 03:41:24] [Andrew Rambaut] Number 1: https://www.altmetric.com/top100/2020/ [2021-01-20 03:42:42] [Andrew Rambaut] Mind you, the retracted Hydroxychloroquine paper is #5