Tony's Diary Package — page 1077

Growth rate advantage relative to BA.5.2 (% per day) GROWTH RATE ADVANTAGE OF SARS-CoV2 VARIANTS based on multinomial spline fit variant ~ ns(date, df=2)+ns(date, df=2):continent+country, GISAID & COG-UK data, using data from countries with >=5 BQ.1, BQ.1.1, BJ.1, XBB, BA.2.3.20 or BA.2.75.2 (Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brunei, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Portugal Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, USA) 10I : ae _ e a ae gh > ny & © Vy a ye © ce & ns = se & s oe s rs & e se i We are doing very poorly compared to other countries in boosting out population: