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Fair point. I doubt if the 3 hours the WHO spent at WIV yesterday is going to appease many people. Looks like they are on a well planned sightseeing tour of Wuhan. I'll have a look at the Google doc when you are done Bob [2021-02-03 13:17:13] [Eddie Holmes] I may have missed this because I can't keep up. In that cast of character mutations how many are true 'immune escape' mutations in that they enable to reinfection of hosts, how many emerged in humans with some sort of partial immune response (e.g. chronic infection), and how many are compensatory/epistatic for other mutations. So, is NellY permissive for EriK? Or is it all of the above? [2021-02-03 13:21:04] [Kristian Andersen] Leif, Karen, and Erik most concerning in that regard - probably... [2021-02-03 13:21:40] [Eddie Holmes] Decent evidence of reinfection? [2021-02-03 14:08:44] [Eddie Holmes] Q2. Is there any decent evidence of selection outside of the spike? [2021-02-03 15:04:25] [Andrew Rambaut] L18F came up secondarily in both RSA and UK [2021-02-03 15:04:55] [Andrew Rambaut] On the other hand the deletion in nsp6 is in all 3 variants [2021-02-03 15:06:23] [Eddie Holmes] :+1: [2021-02-04 04:40:56] [Robert Garry] Don't call it a conspiracy (but hint - they gotta bunch of secret viruses in China) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coronavirus-did-covid-escape-from-a-lab/id1460716677?i=1000507391790 [2021-02-04 04:44:53] [Robert Garry] Lawyers engaged! Yuri warns Angie: [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-02-04 05:44:41] [Andrew Rambaut] Always prefix everything you say with "In my opinion, " [2021-02-04 07:17:56] [Kristian Andersen] He's such a joke. Did you read what Angie said? She basically just called him an amateur and that was it... truth hurts - but I'm afraid lawyers can't fix that.... :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: [2021-02-04 08:15:35] [Andrew Rambaut] In my opinion, he is an amateur.