I believe the only additional info we have heard regarding the manuscript was that the reviewers have actively been in contact with Dr. Patterson and he was assembling answers to their questions as of a couple of weeks ago. Will this require additional data or does this utilize the experiments Dr. Patterson was preemptively doing while waiting to be contacted, I don't think we know.
I do credit NP with saying the process was 4-8 weeks on the last call as that is probably a better estimate of the time it takes to get published at the moment. Level setting those expectations from the get go may have tempered the expectations of those who have thought a paper was imminent. Unfortunately, like the FDA, a large part of this process is not in our control.