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[thread - ID: 2021-05-26 14:13:24] @Eddie Holmes Yes! I noticed the 'influenza' issue...they can never get their indels right. [2021-05-26 14:31:25] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-05-26 14:13:24] @Eddie Holmes :+1: [2021-05-26 14:45:55] [Eddie Holmes] Conference abstract: [shared file(s): NIDO2021_Abstract_Worthington-et-al_v2.docx] [2021-05-26 14:45:57] [Robert Garry] Quay and Asher still making the rounds though in Republican circles - kinda like a BIzzaro World version of Batman and Robin. [2021-05-26 15:05:10] [Robert Garry] Couple of others think their little paper has held up pretty well: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/scientists-wh o-doubt-wuhan-lab-theory-still-b[...]ewed-calls-to-probe-covid-origin/ar-AAKpVNJ?ocid=BingNewsSearch [2021-05-26 15:12:12] [Andrew Rambaut] @Kristian Andersen Oli reckons he is supportive but doesn't know if he wants to wade in on this. But asked if he could take a look and decide? I notice the document is currently open to anyone who has the link - perhaps we should make it an explicit share? Just in case it leaks out. [2021-05-26 15:45:51] [Robert Garry] FWIW - the NPR guy told me that BL claims that he's been misquoted (seems like a couple of times) and that he still supports PO1. It's just that he wanted to make the point that he thinks working with bat covs at BSL2 is a bad idea. :flipper: [2021-05-26 16:21:13] [Eddie Holmes] Lest we forget (SARS positive racoon dogs): https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2003/09/animals-chinese-markets-carried-sars-virus [shared file(s): science.1087139.full.pdf] [2021-05-26 16:22:50] [Eddie Holmes] CIDRAP report is good [2021-05-26 16:41:35] [Andrew Rambaut] @Kristian Andersen could you add David to the other channel using [2021-05-26 16:47:36] [Kristian Andersen] Yup, just added David. All good for Oli to sniff around - as long as he knows that he's either with us or against us... :wink: [2021-05-26 16:47:51] [Kristian Andersen]