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[Robert Garry] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pYh8dkuNi_tAVxw5CdYJRN-KRdkb5EvmrQwNEXDM7mM/edit New doc/new invites - maybe some luck... [2021-02-11 06:46:24] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-02-10 19:40:57] @Eddie Holmes Would be good - he'd doing a fine job under difficult circumstances. Daszak seems to like to stir the pot....mixing in too much Ego *hey he says - I'll talk to Biden set him straight). [2021-02-11 06:50:39] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-02-10 19:40:57] @Eddie Holmes Agree with DD that it would have been good to have more epi data about early cases. Seems like an opportunity lost - but I sorta get it. If they came out and said no epi links of early cases to WIV, then the conspiracy theorists will just cry cover-up. And, any case within 100 km of WIV is going to be taken as conclusive evidence for the leak in the literal sense. [2021-02-11 07:00:58] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-02-10 19:40:57] @Eddie Holmes Hoping to see the argument fleshed out that there is no evidence that WIV had and was working on SC2 or a 99%+ CoV before the outbreak. Logically there no reason that they would have not revealed this, and instead released the 96% CoV RaTG13. [2021-02-11 07:03:22] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-02-10 19:40:57] @Eddie Holmes Also - and we can prompt this on Virological (if Bob can figure out proper invites on Google docs) that the new Cambo, Thai and Japan viruses totally obliterate the DRASTIC/Alina nonsense that RaTG13, RmYN)2 and the pango viruses are contrived. [2021-02-11 07:48:17] [Robert Garry] Here are the permissions on the new doc.... [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-02-11 08:16:13] [Kristian Andersen] Thanks Bob - hopefully I can find some time to take a look next week as well. [2021-02-11 08:49:48] [Robert Garry] Worth reading :https://www.wsj.com/articles/possible-early-covid-19-cases-in-china-emerge-during-who-mission-11 612996225?mod=hp_lead_pos2 [2021-02-11 09:20:00] [Robert Garry] https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-openin[...]ks-at-the-member-states-brie fing-on-covid-19---11-february-2021 Not over til it's over: " Some questions have been raised as to whether some hypotheses have been discarded. I want to clarify that all hypotheses remain open and require further study." [2021-02-11 11:57:19] [Robert Garry]