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(I have reached out to them - crickets). [2021-02-24 09:30:49] [Kristian Andersen] shared file(s): image (1).png, Screen Shot 2021-02-24 at 09.30.29.png [2021-02-24 09:34:16] [Andrew Rambaut] Interesting - we have seen quite a lot of 'reversions' in some of the VOCs. Who would be using this consensus caller? Is there a way to find out? [2021-02-24 09:34:20] [Kristian Andersen] Preprint on the NYC sequences - pretty interesting. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.14.431043v2.full.pdf [2021-02-24 09:34:43] [Kristian Andersen] I'm worried A LOT of people are using the Illumina pipeline - and there's no way to find out in most cases [2021-02-24 09:35:27] [Kristian Andersen] Any lab that hasn't previously been involved in virus sequencing and isn't as comfortable with command line tools would likely use this caller. It's a big big problem. [2021-02-24 09:46:44] [Kristian Andersen] B.1.526 with S477N: https://outbreak.info/situation-reports?country=United%20States&division=California[...]1. 526&muts=S%3AS477N&selected=New%20York&selectedType=division [2021-02-24 09:47:25] [Kristian Andersen] Interestingly, none with both (kinda supporting this is a real effect - since they're independent events): https://outbreak.info/situation-reports?pango=B.1.526&muts=S%3AE484K&muts=S%3AS477N [2021-02-24 11:41:21] [Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2021-02-24 09:27:32] Jeremy Berg? He contacted me as well? I declined, but I looked him up and he seems straight and not a lab escape advocate. [2021-02-24 11:44:27] [Robert Garry] Not Jeremy - Betsy McKay - writes with Jeremy Page [maybe he was the one that contacted you] yeah pretty straight up reporting - not like Pompeo and Alina or the Editorial Page. [2021-02-24 11:53:45] [Eddie Holmes] You have to laugh: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-02-25 at 6.53.00 am.png] [2021-02-24 12:02:20] [Robert Garry] Hilton of course is the one that says mix RaTG13 with GD Pango and *Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo* whatda you got: SARS-CoV-2. Maybe a simple No to Fox News and sorry you don't have time to discuss fairy tales. [2021-02-24 12:03:31]