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I found the link to the host range of pangolins quite interesting... https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/12764/168392151 [2021-05-27 19:48:26] [Kristian Andersen] Eddie's point that the nearest virus to SARS-CoV-2 isn't actually one that WIV has also needs repeating! [shared file(s): Recombination tree.png] [2021-05-27 20:27:28] [Eddie Holmes] Not to moan too much, but we said all this in our Cell paper (there's even a whole section on host range mapping). Probably good that it is being said again though. [2021-05-27 20:49:29] [Kristian Andersen] ... for people like me with a short-term memory, it's good to be reminded again... :wink: [2021-05-27 21:02:32] [Kristian Andersen] At least that furin cleavage site tweet is coming in handy for the Aussies :scienceparrot: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-05-27 at 9.01.45 PM.png] [2021-05-28 07:07:25] [Kristian Andersen] Predictable... https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/28/china/china-coronavirus-lab-leak-floods-mic-intl-hnk/index.html [2021-05-28 07:14:06] [Andrew Rambaut] Ha. I suggested on Twitter it was as likely that some one from USAMRIID infected themself and then flew to Wuhan as it was for someone from WIV to have leaked it. I will ask Beijing for a bung. [2021-05-28 07:14:35] [Andrew Rambaut] I mean you can't prove they didn't. [2021-05-28 07:15:03] [Andrew Rambaut] And there are direct flights from US to Wuhan - coincidence? I don't think so. [2021-05-28 07:20:29] [Robert Garry] Another 4 or so on the shit scale: [shared file(s): How China Is Responding to the Wuhan Lab Leak Theory _ Time.pdf] [2021-05-28 07:23:06] [Robert Garry] So will USAMRIID open their books for a "forensic" evaluation? Porton Down? Winnepeg? I think not. [2021-05-28 07:28:20] [Robert Garry] It's frankly insane - USAMRIID is not going to release info all the projects that they have ongoing on emerging infectious disease vaccines and countermeasures. Same with the others. Might as well write a blueprint for terrorist orgs.