Private channel session 699
11 messages over 1h 2m, 2020-12-19 – 2020-12-19.
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@Andrew Rambaut They're in quarantine for 2 weeks so the is just about plausible although it seems a bit long tome. I'll ask.
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I don't see it. I think it is just unsampled
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It is really hard to do anything at the moment with this data. Our big tree is OK for local stuff but I am not sure how much I trust some of the deeper nodes anymore. We are working hard to improve the tree building.
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> Through the grape vine I've heard that the South Africans are claiming their lineage is "associated with diseasein younger persons". Do you know anything about this?
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No - not heard that. I can't imagine that can be anything other than anecdote surely?
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They only have a few hundred genomes so they can't have enough power to discern that
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I guess they could be seeing an increase in hospitalisation of young and then sequencing those ones.
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I thought you should know that we call the N501Y mutation 'Nelly' (under the Doug naming scheme) and thus the new UK lineage is now being referred to internally as 'the elephant'.
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@Andrew Rambaut Given Australia sequences everything and Denmark has gone from bottom to 4th place in the sequencing league it seems that the new variant must be in many other countries now.
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Was sent this - you may have seen it already: [shared file(s): KRISP_Minister_President_Briefing_Media.pdf]
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@Andrew Rambaut Agreed. Seems the 2 NSW cases are likely from different families as they have different surnames. Also, they are not in the community here. We have a new outbreak in NSW which we think is linked to flight crew and that is lineage B.1. Phew.