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2. Intelligence reports that there were sick workers in WIV [and one person's wife died are disputed by the report: "The three laboratories in Wuhan working with either CoVs diagnostics and/or CoVs isolation and vaccine development all had high quality biosafety level (BSL3 or 4) facilities that were well-managed, with a staff health monitoring programme with no reporting of COVID-19 compatible respiratory illness during the weeks/months prior to December 2019, and no serological evidence of infection in workers through SARS-CoV-2-specific serology-screening." Saying there are intelligence reports to the contrary, but I [Pottinger on 60 Minutes] can't share then with the public is not credible. But important to be clear - if you think there were sick workers at WIV that's now by definition a conspiracy and cover-up. 3. The Molecular part is very well done and complete. Some missed opportunities I think with discussion of the WA-1 sequence (which seems ancestral) and the A-B transition. Still the linkage of the early cases to Markets and Other Markets in Wuhan is there and I believe implicit in their conclusions, but not stated. 4. They did not address the multiple claims that SC2 is an engineered bioweapon since this is not credible. 5. Part of the mission was to identify future directions, which they did an outstanding job of doing. 6. Stuck with their guns - lab leak not credible. 7. The extensive section of the negative results in all the animals tested will probably get the most attention by Lab leak proponents. This is actually the situation that happend with the first SARS. - wild caught animals were negative - they however were able to link human case to civets etc. and the civets to specific markets. This all went down the memory hole, but in ters of capturing wild animals (and bot finding SC1) the result is the same. [2021-03-29 08:35:43] [Kristian Andersen] Awesome summary Bob! I haven't had a chance to get my eyes on it yet - but hopefully soon... [2021-03-29 10:34:23] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-03-29 10:34:23] Another Franken variant - from our Jordanian collaborator... [shared file(s): jordan_variant.png, EPI_ISL_1336652.fasta, jordan_variant_snps.csv] [2021-03-29 10:58:59] [Robert Garry] Appendix page 194 [2021-03-29 10:59:23] [Robert Garry] shared file(s): image.png [2021-03-29 11:05:54] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-03-29 10:34:23] @Kristian Andersen A Jordanian group got in touch about that one. May be in Egypt too. [2021-03-29 11:09:52] [Robert Garry] The raccoon dogs are in the report. [2021-03-29 11:21:46] [Robert Garry] No discussion I saw other than this @Eddie Holmes quote. [2021-03-29 11:34:05] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-03-29 10:34:23] @Kristian Andersen Okay, great. It might be worth coordinating about this since our Jordanian collaborator have been providing all the samples for the >95% dataset on GISAID that we sequenced here at Scripps. Edyth is currently taking the lead on analyzing that dataset, which isn't currently focused on variants - but might be worth