People have asked why the virus is still improving since it's (pre)adapted for human transmission. Pathogens vs hosts are in a constant arms race. SARS2 got good at infecting humans, but now it's a different game - getting around immune response, sometimes within a patient.
https://twitter.com/Williams_T_C/status/1345708240382918658
This is just super disturbing. "with just 3 mutations... escape from neutralisation by that plasma"
https://twitter.com/Williams_T_C/status/1345708296326565888
What it means is that each country really needs to step up its game of sequencing SARS2 virus isolates in their cities. Scientists then need to take these sequences and test them to see if they can affect efficacy of antibodies, vaccines, diagnostics. covidcg.org/?tab=global_se…
USA is shown with red dot; only ~1 in 400 covid cases are sequenced. Which makes no sense because Australia is sequencing almost 1 in 2 cases, UK is sequencing almost 1 in 20 cases... covidcg.org/?tab=global_se… 
Could really help to have an international fund for countries, especially those without financial and scientific resources, to test, diagnose, and sequence the SARS2 viruses from their patients.
This helps vastly more than just a few countries like UK, Aus sequencing overtime...
This helps vastly more than just a few countries like UK, Aus sequencing overtime...
@WHO raised this new conundrum that countries, e.g. UK, that sequence their SARS2 viruses most frequently tend to be blamed for being the source of any new variant.
If we were more uniformly sequencing covid cases worldwide, this wouldn't be as much of an issue.
If we were more uniformly sequencing covid cases worldwide, this wouldn't be as much of an issue.
Want to be extremely clear on this point, I don't think we should be going into any more bat caves; we should be just funneling the research funding into pathogen surveillance in human and farmed animal populations.
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