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Good point! [2021-05-13 15:52:36] [Eddie Holmes] Ron is still toxic. [2021-05-13 15:54:29] [Robert Garry] Susan R. Weiss https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p11346 [2021-05-13 16:05:28] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-05-13 15:31:20] @Andrew Rambaut THese two from the CAmbridge Group wrote this: https://mbio.asm.org/content/11/4/e01868-20 At this time, the scientific consensus is that the virus emerged as a zoonosis whereby it jumped from an animal host, possibly bats or pangolins, to humans (*11*), and arguments about a laboratory origin for SARS-CoV-2 are more akin to a conspiracy theory than to a scientifically credible hypothesis. [2021-05-13 16:09:17] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-05-13 14:30:47] @Kristian Andersen fair-cop [2021-05-13 17:19:12] [Kristian Andersen] Bill Hanage [2021-05-13 17:19:19] [Kristian Andersen] Nate Grubaugh [2021-05-13 17:20:38] [Kristian Andersen] Nancy Connell [2021-05-13 17:22:36] [Kristian Andersen] Martha Nelson [2021-05-13 17:25:05] [Kristian Andersen] Adam Lauring [2021-05-13 19:49:39] [Kristian Andersen] This is pretty wild - >75% reinfections within a 3-month period on a large Danish mink farm: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.07.443055v1 [2021-05-13 19:52:52] [Kristian Andersen] Big question - do mink have crappy immunity to SARS-CoV-2 and we shouldn't worry or are the reinfections caused by animals being stacked so close together so once it gets going on a farm, it'll burn through (again). Now, we have never tested any of the COVID-19 vaccines in a scenario where we're fully back to normal, spending a ton of time indoors with a lot of other people - e.g., a big office full of people talking all day... I doubt this is a