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[Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-05-23 16:47:42] Indeed - I want to archive this here May 23, 2021. Alina apparently reading the WHO report for the first time - did not stop her from saying in the science ltr that WHO report provided no evidence. [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-05-23 16:55:02] [Robert Garry] The letter is pure dynamite - we need to get it out ASAP. [2021-05-23 17:04:38] [Eddie Holmes] Spectacular! [2021-05-23 17:48:56] [Eddie Holmes] I can't read this. Is there anything of note in it: https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228 [2021-05-23 18:07:57] [Kristian Andersen] Nope, it's _exactly_ the same as previously reported - NO new information. [2021-05-23 18:11:28] [Eddie Holmes] Thought so. If 3 staff were sick enough to go to hospital then any outbreak at WIV must have been substantial. [2021-05-23 18:16:23] [Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2021-05-23 18:16:23] And of course, the molecular clock dates put the origin of the virus back to September or so [2021-05-23 18:16:45] [Robert Garry] I'll send in the morning (i have to be on the University network to get full access). [2021-05-23 18:20:27] [Eddie Holmes] CNN have it better: "The current intelligence reinforces the belief that the virus most likely originated naturally, from animal-human contact, the sources said. But that does not preclude the possibility that the virus was the result of an accidental leak from the Wuhan Institute, where coronavirus research was being conducted on bats." [2021-05-23 18:53:46] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-05-23 16:47:42] @Robert Garry Rosanna too [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-05-23 20:17:18] [Eddie Holmes] https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab456/6278597 [2021-05-23 20:17:40] [Eddie Holmes] We should cite this somewhere [2021-05-23 22:31:07]