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I'll probably email him - but not worth losing sleep over. Safe it for the first cup of coffee tomorrow morning. Or beer :beer: [2021-04-15 08:06:32] [Robert Garry] It's pure garbage. [2021-04-15 08:25:11] [Kristian Andersen] Total garbage - unbelievable. [2021-04-15 12:07:07] [Kristian Andersen] Reading that article again pissed me off more than I expected. So I wasted some time. [shared file(s): Clarification on recent CNET article] [2021-04-15 12:15:00] [Robert Garry] Not a waste of time - well done! [2021-04-15 12:18:20] [Kristian Andersen] I mean - the idiot included Eddie being "a Chinese puppet" among many other things. That's a really, really low point for journalism. [2021-04-15 12:24:12] [Robert Garry] It's a hit piece. Claims to be a science writer - hates people that can actually do science. You did a good job of pointing out the sophistry, which describes the entire article. [2021-04-15 12:35:47] [Robert Garry] Again well done. What a real journalist would do is ask the straightforward questions; "Can you please clarify (a) if you are accusing Drs. Holmes and Zhengli of lying," "Just to clarify - are you saying Dr. Rasmussen is lying?" and Do you agree with these statements by "Bostickson...?" No journalist has done the same of Alina, Jamie, Relman etc. [2021-04-15 13:14:31] [Kristian Andersen] @Andrew Rambaut - do you have any insights about vaccine "breakthroughs" from your data? We just picked up four - three B.1.1.7 and one P.1 with one of the B.1.1.7s having Eek (first time we have seen that here). B.1.1.7 is high frequency by now, so not all that surprising to see it, although 3/4 and one with Eek is outside of what we might expect. P.1 is also circulating, but likely <5%, so picking that one up in a breakthrough also isn't great. [2021-04-15 13:20:36] [Andrew Rambaut] I have heard they are 'enriched' for 484K but not significantly so. I am actually trying to get access to the data stream [2021-04-15 13:23:06] [Kristian Andersen] It's my biggest fear that a few months down the line we're going to see many (many!) of these and I can't convince myself that it's _not_ going to happen. I have an unhealthy habit of refreshing the epi curve from Israel, which has been a huge success for vaccines. I want to keep it that way - but I can't shake this sense of doom (which is just part of being Kristian Andersen, I think...). [2021-04-15 13:23:08]