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[thread - ID: 2021-04-13 16:17:07] @Andrew Rambaut https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29128390/ RmYN02 doesn't vary from SC2 as much as RaTG13 in the "dip"- but some variability - It's the "hypervariable region" also rich in glutamic acid. [2021-04-14 07:52:22] [Robert Garry] COVID COMMISSION PLANNING GROUP https://millercenter.org/covidcpgThe Planning Group is directed by Philip Zelikow, who was executive director of the 9/11 Commission and the earlier, privately organized, Carter-Ford Commission on Federal Election Reform. Leading experts on the *Johns Hopkins* team include Amesh Adalja, Anita Cicero, Lisa Cooper, Gigi Gronvall, Tara Kirk Sell, Jennifer Nuzzo, Caitlin Rivers, Joshua Sharfstein, Eric Toner, and Crystal Watson. Senior advisers to the Covid CPG include veteran investigators and experts drawn from across several disciplines, including Michael Callahan, an expert on infectious disease and vaccine development at Massachusetts General Hospital; Nicholas Christakis of Yale University and author of _Apollo's Arrow;_ Ruth Faden, founder of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; Julie Gerberding, chief patient officer and executive vice president at Merck and former CDC director; Margaret "Peggy" Hamburg, former New York City health commissioner and FDA commissioner; Alexander Lazar of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas;* Marc Lipsitch of Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health*; Anup Malani at the University of Chicago; J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president and director of the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota; *microbiologist David Relman of Stanford University*; Kristin Urquiza, co-founder of Marked By COVID; and Rajeev Venkayya, a former biodefense official and head of global vaccines at Takeda. The Covid CPG is currently organized around planning nine task forces, laying the foundation for a future commission to investigate: • *Origins and prevention*, including debates about the origins of this pandemic; analysis of the virus and its variants; and the rising danger of future pandemics *Lipstich and Relman - not a good sign* [2021-04-14 11:39:40] [Robert Garry] IF they are going to debate the origins of SC2 with this line-up it might get a bit one-sided and not on the side of the good guys. [2021-04-14 12:54:01] [Kristian Andersen] [thread - ID: 2021-04-14 12:54:01] Looking at this group of people, I don't see any expertise to actually answer questions about origins - nobody with relevant experience. [2021-04-14 13:16:06] [Kristian Andersen] ".... we also strongly support his exercise of academic freedom and freedom of speech". Can't help but laugh. I really hope I get a chance to talk to a journalist about this at some point... [shared file(s): RE: Dr. Ebright] [2021-04-14 13:27:01] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-04-14 12:54:01] @Kristian Andersen Exactly [2021-04-14 13:28:04] [Eddie Holmes] Unless that commission have new data - which of course they don't - it's going to be a complete waste of time [2021-04-14 13:36:22] [Eddie Holmes]