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Epidemiologist @ PHE. Opinions my own.
Jun 11, 2021 8 tweets 4 min read
New variant tech briefing published today! assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

Today's R #tweetorial: The construction of this epicurve-in-an-epicurve, our first plot showing the increasing number of #DeltaVariant cases detected using sequencing AND genotyping. #Rstats #epitwitter Genotyping with the reflex PCR involves looking for a combination of variant-specific mutations. Implementing genotyping surveillance has been a massive public health effort, and means a more complete, timely, yet alarming picture of Delta trends - but better we know!