I was hoping to dig through Sanger variant data for NE today but only 4% of NE June's cases & 19% of May cases have been sequenced so far (compared to e.g 70% & 23% for NW respectively).
This is the lowest of any region for both months - not sure why but it's frustrating. 1/2
This is the lowest of any region for both months - not sure why but it's frustrating. 1/2
https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1411405854625218560
It's likely NE rapid rise is a combination of the various factors people have suggested: high deprivation, lower January peak, football, students... but none on its own is unique to NE & start of rapid rise predated football.
But I'd like to be surer it's not a bad variant. 2/2
But I'd like to be surer it's not a bad variant. 2/2
PS so far, NE looks like just a Delta rise - over 95% of sequenced cases in June were Delta. But as I said, small numbers.
PPS just to clarify that I do v much appreciate the work COG & Sanger are doing! this isn't a dig at them in any way but just that I was hoping to look more closely at NE end of May / June and the data just isn't there (yet?).
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