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[2021-02-05 00:17:14] [Andrew Rambaut] Spike mutations: D614G, E484K, G769V, W152L [2021-02-05 00:18:30] [Andrew Rambaut] We are currently looking at whether 484K is starting to appear more frequently (in multiple backgrounds) than it did before or whether we just have more cases and more sequencing. [2021-02-05 00:20:17] [Eddie Holmes] Yes, very interesting question. That we are seeing it in Australia is perhaps tell-tale. [2021-02-05 00:20:24] [Andrew Rambaut] For your case I would say it is irrelevant with respect to action that it is a recent cluster - just that it has 484K. I.e., it is not a 'cluster of concern' but it has a mutation of concern. [2021-02-05 00:21:12] [Andrew Rambaut] If you look at the number of States that cluster spans - it does suggest widespread transmission in the US. [2021-02-05 00:21:37] [Andrew Rambaut] But everything has been spreading like crazy in the US [2021-02-05 00:23:22] [Eddie Holmes] [thread - ID: 2021-02-05 00:23:22] I think the local health people just like to be doing stuff. Hopefully this person gets put in a room at the end of the corridor. [2021-02-05 01:07:29] [Eddie Holmes] The quantum computer sequencing sounds interesting. I might link him up with EgoHealth :zany_face: [shared file(s): Screen Shot 2021-02-05 at 8.03.49 pm.png] [2021-02-05 03:31:59] [Andrew Rambaut] [thread - ID: 2021-02-05 00:23:22] @Eddie Holmes And gets special 'room service' no doubt. [2021-02-05 06:01:28] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-02-04 20:29:21] @Kristian Andersen Good that Angie is taking the heat for use PO1 guys. Kinda like the now iconic scene in the first Wonder Woman movie where Diana literally runs through the battlefield. Bad as Yuri and the DRASTICs are imagine how you'd feel about this: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp4gx/professor-catfished-by-stalker-identity-theft-plagiarism:scream_cat: [2021-02-05 07:00:54] [Robert Garry] Coming to think that it may be the combo of NellY and EriK, not necessarily either alone that is the most concern. Probably not enough attention on PooH and the NTD Deletions... Oh to Andrew's point the nsp6 deletion as well.