Private channel session 1288

6 messages over 1h 49m, 2021-04-26 – 2021-04-26.

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1. 2021-04-26 00:32 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.729
   What's the feeling about B.1.617: is it genuinely increasing transmissibility or is it just riding the wave of the massive number of cases in India?
2. 2021-04-26 00:37 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.729
   B.1.617 is split into B.1.617.1 (with E484Q) and B.1.617.2 (without) and both seem to be coming up along with a lotof other stuff. But there are no sequences since the start of April and the sequencing is quite geographicallyhetrogenous. My guess is that most of it is B.1.1.7.
3. 2021-04-26 00:38 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.729
   It seems there are a lot of sequences that are not being put on GISAID: https://science.thewire.in/health/variant-first-identified-in-uk-is-behind-delhis-covid-19-surge-ncdc-chief/
4. 2021-04-26 00:41 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.729
   That's really interesting.
5. 2021-04-26 01:40 Andrew Rambaut open PDF p.729
   Weirdly B.1.617.2 is coming up a lot in recent travel related international cases (with connection to India) but very little in Indian GISAID genomes so likely somewhere missing from surveillance.
6. 2021-04-26 02:22 Edward C. Holmes open PDF p.730
   Let's hope they can get their sequencing together. Indian scientists are submitting a ton of papers to bioRxiv.