Slack / Private Message Drop — page 940

[Eddie Holmes] I'm still working on the barcoding of the environmental samples from the market idea. There does appear to be some movement.... [2021-06-10 17:28:20] [Kristian Andersen] In better news. :chart_with_upwards_trend: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-06-10 at 11.36.06.png] [2021-06-10 17:30:03] [Eddie Holmes] Keeps on giving! [2021-06-10 17:30:56] [Kristian Andersen] Might also get us killed. Buy hey, we can print the final score on my tombstone :headstone: [2021-06-10 17:35:40] [Eddie Holmes] That is such a good and I'll get to test it first! [2021-06-11 06:26:13] [Robert Garry] Check the Metzl video on PBS - dude is in fact trying to get us and Daszak killed. PO1 a [CCP] propaganda piece , oh yeah.... [2021-06-11 06:26:26] [Robert Garry] Might actually think about a response to PBS. [2021-06-11 14:15:24] [Eddie Holmes] That's totally irresponsible - I'll ask the University lawyers to take a look [2021-06-11 15:41:22] [Eddie Holmes] For the smaller group only...I've heard there are MERS-like viruses in the pangolins. I assume these have a furin cleavage site. Trying to find out what the sequence is. [2021-06-11 15:45:24] [Robert Garry] bingo [2021-06-11 15:58:24] [Kristian Andersen] Ohhh, interesting. I'm so confused about this pangolin stuff - did we always know they were full of CoVs? To me it's something we only found out recently, but I'm not that well-read in this space. [2021-06-11 16:20:13] [Eddie Holmes] Not only did we know NOTHING about pangolin CoVs until the end of 2019 but we knew NOTHING about pangolin viruses. Period. Now it turns about they are balls of scales full of viruses. The narrative that these are just transient spillover infections is clearly wrong. They can be reservoirs. Whether these MERS-like viruses are of any importance is unclear, but it does show that pangolins are more important in the ecology of these viruses than we thought.