Slack / Private Message Drop — page 633

[Kristian Andersen] There's clearly clustering of cases in some of the stalls - I'd like to know that those held raccoon dogs and/or civets... Or pangolins. Or whatever. [2021-03-25 13:33:57] [Robert Garry] My guess is that's what Daszak's tiling project is trying to show along with Eddie's smoking raccoon dog pics. "Thirty-one of the 33 positive samples were collected from the western zone of the market, where booths of wildlife trading concentrated. The result suggests that the novel coronavirus outbreak is highly relevant to the trading of the wild animals, experts said. The successful isolation of the novel coronavirus further substantiates that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market contains a large quantity of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), according to the experts." [2021-03-25 13:34:20] [Robert Garry] Ask George Gao when you get him on Zoom at 4 your time! [2021-03-25 13:37:17] [Robert Garry] Maybe get the Ct values too while you're at it :thinking_face: [2021-03-25 13:51:57] [Eddie Holmes] All we can do now is wait for the WHO report - that will change the debate. I doubt George will say much of interest. [2021-03-25 13:56:48] [Eddie Holmes] Zhang just told me that the Director of his institute in Shanghai just got the boot for protecting him last year. The Ministry of Health are keen for vengeance. [2021-03-25 15:44:02] [Robert Garry] I have the translations for the map and the locations/identities of the positive samples. Will annotate the map and send thru. [2021-03-25 15:50:38] [Eddie Holmes] Great! [2021-03-25 16:41:54] [Robert Garry] Garbage truck - A33 - not located on map. Location of other samples here: [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-25 16:44:41] [Robert Garry] The Q61, 64, 68, 69, 70 samples that include the iron cage are to me the most interesting. If I had to guess, I'd guess that's where Eddie's raccoon dog was. [2021-03-25 16:55:37] [Eddie Holmes] Yes, definitely around there somewhere I'll look carefully later [2021-03-25 17:17:18] [Kristian Andersen] Interesting... I can see now why they keep talking about frozen foods....