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That would put a new spin on the debate... Perhaps they will have taken SC2 and added sufficient mutations so that it looks like it is a new introduction. Get them off the hook for WIV [2021-06-04 07:18:45] [Kristian Andersen] I hadn't actually thought about the possibility of additional spillovers. Would immediately invalidate the lab leak - although, of course, there's a lab there too... A good one. And they're working on CoVs... [2021-06-04 07:23:56] [Andrew Rambaut] What did you mean by 'reintroductions'? Imports from global? [2021-06-04 07:24:36] [Kristian Andersen] Yeah, sorry - I meant new/additional. Not "re" [2021-06-04 07:25:41] [Andrew Rambaut] I should offer to be a consultant to design a genome that would categorically disprove the lab leak. [2021-06-04 07:25:58] [Andrew Rambaut] Or that it started in the USA [2021-06-04 07:26:18] [Andrew Rambaut] (more tricky - you would have to plant it in the US [2021-06-04 07:26:42] [Robert Garry] I nominate San Diego! [2021-06-04 07:27:16] [Robert Garry] Or, if you think NOLA would do - I'm your guy! [2021-06-04 07:27:31] [Kristian Andersen] Currently the most believable root is a US sequence, sooo.... [2021-06-04 07:27:48] [Andrew Rambaut] I wa thinking Chapel Hill [2021-06-04 07:28:31] [Kristian Andersen] Payback for Deep Throat bs email Epic. [2021-06-04 07:28:33] [Robert Garry] WA-1 or something even earlier in Chapel HIll - love it! [2021-06-04 07:36:49] [Robert Garry]