Slack / Private Message Drop — page 976

[2021-07-06 19:50:29] [Eddie Holmes] So, it turns out these are pooled (10) bat samples from Yunnan and the don't yet have the S1/S2 region. More sequencing being done. Current sequence is very messy. On the plus side because they are pooled some may actually be closer to SC2. [2021-07-06 20:03:11] [Robert Garry] RBD and S1/S2 got to be interesting just based on this. [2021-07-06 20:08:57] [Eddie Holmes] Indeed It's important that it's only virus close in S other than RaTG13 [2021-07-07 01:52:26] [Andrew Rambaut] Eddie - I am going to remove the 'corresponding authors' line for the preprint - to avoid a perception that there are leaders and we just recruited everyone else. Obviously the journal will need corresponding but hopefully by then it will be water under the bridge. [2021-07-07 01:54:16] [Andrew Rambaut] Any journalist will be able to contact us. [2021-07-07 02:16:18] [Eddie Holmes] Fine by me. [2021-07-07 15:59:37] [Kristian Andersen] Since Eddie was gloating about some unimportant ballgame earlier today, I'm happy to see he didn't make the cut. (what a weird selection of people :wink: ). :crown::flag-dk::trophy::soccer: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-07-07 at 3.57.17 PM.png] [2021-07-07 16:05:00] [Eddie Holmes] I will happily forsake that for the first final in 55 years Great coverage so far though I'm very interested in what Bloom and Relman say [2021-07-07 16:08:31] [Kristian Andersen] The only thing they really can say is "it's great to see the evidence summarized for natural emergence". Anything other than that would prove that they don't give a toss about the actual science here. [2021-07-07 16:08:57] [Kristian Andersen] (which I suspect is exactly what will happen) [2021-07-07 23:30:49] [Eddie Holmes] Just sharing this with the smaller group as it definitely shouldn't get out. It's the Chinese proposal for the 2nd phase of the investigation. Key aim: it's not China. What bollocks. [shared file(s): TOR proposal by Chinese experts-ENG.docx]