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From Weifeng and obviously in very strict confidence. I assume these are from Yunnan. Also has some interesting alphas. [2021-01-22 11:54:11] [Kristian Andersen] Oh, very interesting! Looking forward to seeing the actual sequences. Very cool. [2021-01-22 11:57:20] [Eddie Holmes] The similarity scores imply that some are as close as RaTG13 in a number of genes. Will be good to see the Cambodian one in this tree as well. Interesting recombination events with respect to the pangolin viruses. Nature is an amazing thing. [2021-01-22 12:13:49] [Kristian Andersen] What's interesting is that it's all over the place every time we find a new virus. We're only scratching 0.000000000000000000000000000000001% of the surface. [2021-01-22 12:21:18] [Eddie Holmes] Exactly. So many viruses in nature that are close to SARS-CoV-2. [2021-01-22 12:21:47] [Eddie Holmes] Take a look @Andrew Rambaut and @Robert Garry [2021-01-22 12:24:28] [Robert Garry] Very interesting- how about the S1/S2 junction - HA379_CNSv1 seems close to RmYN02 - Maybe it and perhaps the other have indels there? [2021-01-22 12:24:59] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-01-21 15:14:06] @Kristian Andersen BTW - nice chart there @Kristian Andersen [2021-01-22 12:30:42] [Eddie Holmes] I'll see what I can find out. [2021-01-22 12:44:08] [Robert Garry] I like the fact that the new ones are filling in some gaps... [2021-01-22 12:45:38] [Eddie Holmes] Yes. I'm sure Alina and Yuri will be happy as well. [2021-01-22 12:50:35] [Robert Garry] I listened a bit to the Yuri and Billy show live this morning - if they mentioned the new virological post I did not hear it. They were however very much trying to project the airs of serious scientists - no pictures of male genitalia. In this mode neither could be described as stupid per se, just some really misguided, misinformed and biased opinions masked up as "science." Yeah Yuri is a fraudster. [2021-01-22 12:53:58]