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Yes, she's clearly behind that PLoS request. Like @Andrew Rambaut I was also asked by PLoS to look at that paper yesterday. I declined because I said that I would be classed as having a conflict of interest. [2021-04-22 13:15:25] [Kristian Andersen] I'm not quite sure what she's trying to say - that first they said it was SARS-CoV-2 and then later repackaged the paper when they realized it was a resipirovirus? [2021-04-22 13:17:39] [Eddie Holmes] Just spectacularly stupid [2021-04-22 13:19:34] [Eddie Holmes] They'd already reported the respirovirus in the pangolins. This was just a follow-up study. [2021-04-22 13:19:52] [Andrew Rambaut] Someone reply to her with this link: https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=respirovirus [2021-04-22 13:20:03] [Robert Garry] Liu P, Chen W, Chen JP. Viral metagenomics revealed Sendai virus and coronavirus infection of Malayan pangolins (Manis javanica). Viruses 2019;11:979. [2021-04-22 13:20:34] [Eddie Holmes] There you go. [2021-04-22 13:22:04] [Robert Garry] Where is a good journalist when you need one? [2021-04-22 13:28:04] [Eddie Holmes] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3130470/coronavirus-chinese-expert-rails-against-tedros-andwuhan-lab [2021-04-22 13:31:21] [Robert Garry] Tedros did this in a ham-handed way. Not sure what was in his head (pressure from other countries maybe], but if I had been on the study would definitely have been pissed off. [2021-04-22 13:59:09] [Eddie Holmes] Agreed. He was just so keen to get the US back into the fold. [2021-04-22 16:00:18] [Robert Garry] Yes indeed - really need to get the White House and DoS up to speed on the - I'm sure you know - the actual science instead of the :hankey:. We are on the wrong side of the politics, but the right side of reality. [2021-04-22 16:01:15] [Robert Garry] The ASTMH article a good start. Much more needed to counter the BS.