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[Robert Garry] Next week - maybe not. Report turned over to Chinese Scientists in English on March 17th. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1218912.shtml [2021-03-21 06:35:17] [Robert Garry] Hypocrisy much? [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-21 06:52:50] [Robert Garry] Billy and Sherri working together - also this Asher :clown_face:. It's embarrassing to the US DoS (RAT-G13 plus Pango pop into humanized mice and then some magic = SC2). At least Steve B. and Miles G. admit to being drunk. [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-21 07:25:19] [Robert Garry] The most detailed article on the coming WHO report so far: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-20/c ontentious-hunt-for-covid-s-origin-points-to-china-animal-trade [2021-03-21 07:30:15] [Robert Garry] DD - spilling the beans? Perfect Place' "When you visit the market, you realize that it's a perfect place for an outbreak to occur because it's crowded, lots of stalls, lots of animal products, and ventilation and drainage are a bit suboptimal," he said in an interview. "It's not surprising we had an explosion through there." [2021-03-21 14:25:25] [Eddie Holmes] Dominic told me that might be a week or two yet and that they had some WHO meetings lined up this week. Colleague just found an alpha coronavirus in a pangolin so clearly these animals are highly susceptible. [shared file(s): pangolin
-CoV.png] [2021-03-21 14:36:27] [Robert Garry] Does it have a FCS? [2021-03-21 14:41:30] [Eddie Holmes] They only have 3 kb at the moment. Not quite sure which bit. I'll investigate. [2021-03-21 14:54:11] [Robert Garry] Raises a question as to whether pangolins are true reservoirs of multiple CoV lineages (possible) or just occasionally getting infected via spillovers - presumably from bats. Same question can be raised regarding SC1 visa vis civets and the occasional raccoon dog - are these species true SC1 reservoirs or occasional spillovers? Related question - have humans gone from being spillover hosts to now being Ebola virus reservoirs? I think you could argue either way. [2021-03-21 15:02:52] [Eddie Holmes] I suspect there are reservoirs. We are now seeing multiple lineages over multiple years - with Tommy we have seropositives dating back to Malaysia a few years ago. Hopefully will get sequences very soon. The key point is that it won't just be bats and pangolins.... [2021-03-21 15:14:01] [Robert Garry]