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[Kristian Andersen] I might mess with him a little - just to fuck up his little conspiracy brain... Haven't heard from Xander and Alex since they accused me of research fraud and genocide. I miss them. [2021-02-07 08:29:33] [Kristian Andersen] Sorry, not genocide - war crimes. Need to be accurate in the allegations. [2021-02-07 09:00:44] [Robert Garry] Speaking of racist utterances - and this may be old news - but Don McNeil recently got fired by the NYT for using the N-word in a discussion with some interns about 5 years ago, [2021-02-07 09:10:43] [Kristian Andersen] Damn - didn't know that. He's be very quiet as of late, so I guess that explains it. [2021-02-07 11:12:05] [Eddie Holmes] This is all so weird. I do like the idea of smoking raccoon dog. [2021-02-07 11:13:51] [Eddie Holmes] WHO panel say they will announce some initial findings before they leave on Wednesday...that will be very interesting [2021-02-07 12:17:45] [Kristian Andersen] This is pretty nuts - AZN/Oxford vaccine totally killed by B.1.351. Not good. (and do we need to go back to consider that strange overlap between all these variants and the vax trials? Probably not, but it makes me uncomfortable). https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1358488910637060097?s=20 [2021-02-07 12:22:39] [Andrew Rambaut] I think the big question is is this E484K or is it a combo with something else. E484K is popping up all over the shop at the moment. [2021-02-07 12:23:17] [Robert Garry] Also mild-moderate disease - more important how about severe? [2021-02-07 12:25:15] [Kristian Andersen] I think Leif and Karen are key too - but I'd expect B.1.1.7 + Erik to come with a big hit too. [2021-02-07 12:26:34] [Kristian Andersen] Absolutely no effect preventing mild-moderate so I don't expect much ability to prevent severe either. But we'll see - this is very early data. It's just a shit vaccine - I'm sure the others won't see this bad a drop (and we have _some_ data on that) and will also prevent severe disease in many cases. [2021-02-07 12:28:26] [Andrew Rambaut] Leif is everywhere (and quite common on B.1.1.7)