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Along these lines, I wonder if we will eventually see charts like this for ALL human viruses with a person by person trace: https://nextstrain.org/ncov https://
by alexpotato 7y ago
Along these lines, I wonder if we will eventually see charts like this for ALL human viruses with a person by person trace: https://nextstrain.org/ncov https://nextstrain.org/ncov
- sjg007 7y agoYes we will
- Ericson2314 7y agoWhy so confident? We have the technical skills, but this also takes institutional cooperation we suck at. We don't even have a standard format for conventional medical records in the US!
- sjg007 7y agoI expect legislation that will require CDC and DHHS to establish surveillance programs. We will be sequencing. This will be academic labs and clinic labs most likely. There might be a national sequencing center established. If we work together with China we might leverage their massive sequencing capacity.
- leoedin 7y agoThat chart is fascinating - especially the extent of which some countries apparently have virus strains from every branch, while others have 1 or 2 distinct lineages (Washington State being the biggest one). That does imply that the UK and Netherlands have seen the virus introduced from many sources, which suggests much more widespread transmission than eg New Zealand, which appears to have one lineage. However, there's probably a huge sampling bias present. Hopefully we can keep doing this sort of genetic lineage testing at greater rates - it's incredibly informative on how it spreads.