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Also, definitely not a conspiracy theorist. Not at all. [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-03-09 at 7.31.45 PM.png, Screen Shot 2021-03-09 at 7.33.06 PM.png, Screen Shot 2021-03-09 at 7.33.50 PM.png, Screen Shot 2021-03-09 at 7.34.21 PM.png, Screen Shot 2021-03-09 at 7.35.06 PM.png] [2021-03-09 19:41:43] [Robert Garry] "Nature just had a podcast with bad information." Really? [2021-03-09 19:46:14] [Eddie Holmes] Absolutely crazy. Can't wait for that WHO report! [2021-03-09 19:51:29] [Robert Garry] yeah - that was the best piece of news today about your raccoon dog pics over the grate correlating the low Cts. Also in the good news category - Weifeng's paper puts several more nails in the coffin containing Alina's GD pango is fake story. [2021-03-09 19:54:21] [Eddie Holmes] Although, of course, I'm going to look like I'm even deeper in the conspiracy.... [2021-03-09 19:56:18] [Kristian Andersen] Getting rich off those CCP checks. There are worse things in life. :moneybag::cn: [2021-03-09 19:58:53] [Eddie Holmes] There are indeed. Just can't wait to see that report released now. [2021-03-09 19:59:45] [Kristian Andersen] Yup, same. Some _actual_ expert on that mission and they're going to be thinking VERY hard about how to phrase things so it should be insightful. [2021-03-09 22:03:32] [Eddie Holmes] Here are key new seqs. They are not up on GISAID yet (hopefully by end of the week) so please keep any analysis private until then. [shared file(s): BatCoV_SARS-CoV-2-related.fasta] [2021-03-10 04:38:26] [Robert Garry] Perfect - have progress on updating figures for our virological post. Can do this after they appear on GSAID. [2021-03-10 04:56:05] [Robert Garry] I think it's GREAT that Eddie's pics might be the smoking gun of the "forensic" evidence that WHO collects. The ppl that had SC2 at the market were not likely to have been shedding so much virus that it ended up on a sewer grate under an animal cage. Very likely then that SC2 was in animals. Good for Koopmans pointing out the low Cts making it likely that it was animals. If traders were bringing infected animals to this market they were likely bring infected animals to other markets as well. Coupled with the facts that there was a period of undetected circulation this easily explains why cases not liked to the Hubei market also showed up. NO early cases linked to a lab - lots of cases linked to the market - lab theory out the window. [2021-03-10 05:28:43] [Andrew Rambaut]