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B.1.617.2 (and .1) are very diverse suggesting quite an old origin (perhaps July last year).

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2021-05-13 14:11 Kristian G. Andersen open

Please tell me something is TOTALLY wrong with this. (I saw the fantastic discussion a few days ago)
2021-05-13 14:11 Andrew Rambaut open

The india data is hugely difficult to interpret at the morent
2021-05-13 14:11 Kristian G. Andersen open

Nope, definitely not as simple as that - and clearly there's a bias here. However...
2021-05-13 14:11 Kristian G. Andersen open

Difficult enough to the point that we have to ignore it for now?
2021-05-13 14:12 Andrew Rambaut

B.1.617.2 (and .1) are very diverse suggesting quite an old origin (perhaps July last year).
2021-05-13 14:12 Andrew Rambaut open

But imports into UK basically started in March and Indian samples only appeared in Feb.
2021-05-13 14:12 Kristian G. Andersen open

Yup, saw that - similar to CA variant which may well be a dud.
2021-05-13 14:13 Andrew Rambaut open

But the full diversity is being imported into UK.
2021-05-13 14:13 Kristian G. Andersen open

Became HUGELY prevalent during the surge, but it was surge-driven, not mutation-driven (most likely)