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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-did-the-pandemic-begin-its-time-for-a-new-who-inve stigation/2021/04/30/e1a2e702-a9dc-11eb-8c1a-56f0cb4ff3b5_story.html [2021-05-01 08:21:50] [Andrew Rambaut] Qualified? [2021-05-01 08:25:41] [Kristian Andersen] Hah - losly defined.... [2021-05-01 08:26:47] [Kristian Andersen] I'd argue the first mission had exceptionally qualified people... but what do I know - COI and all. [2021-05-01 12:20:30] [Andrew Rambaut] Exactly - the one thing they definitely were was qualified. [2021-05-01 12:36:13] [Andrew Rambaut] https://twitter.com/GuptaR_lab/status/1388422656907780096 [2021-05-01 12:49:29] [Kristian Andersen] Yeah, saw that and A LOT of people jumping to conclusions due to confirmation bias. Good to see, but several key mutations missing in his constructs so no idea how representative it is of 617s actual effect - let's hope it is, but this data is not very solid. [2021-05-01 14:20:51] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-05-01 14:20:51] Yup. But I think the straight difference between Eriq and Erik is interesting. [2021-05-01 22:40:58] [Eddie Holmes] This one is priceless: https://iv.iiarjournals.org/content/35/3/1313.long [2021-05-01 22:41:38] [Eddie Holmes] "Since a coronavirus variant with great similarity to SARS-CoV-2 was also found in a pangolin, Chinese researchers proposed that this armadillo could be an intermediate host (*27*). But how is the virus supposed to get from the bats that catch their food - insects and spiders - in flight at night into the pangolin, whose natural home is Malaysia, and from there into the human lungs? The explanation looks like a hapless assignment of blame." [2021-05-02 06:30:03] [Kristian Andersen] .... definitely lab then! :man-shrugging::skin-tone-2: [2021-05-02 07:12:02] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-05-01 14:20:51] @Andrew Rambaut Indeed - removing the negative charge different than flipping to a positive charge. Whatever changes in structure these mutations induce are gonna be "very" different.