{"id":10227,"date":"2021-06-07T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T17:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10227"},"modified":"2021-06-08T10:49:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:49:52","slug":"early-epidemiological-signatures-of-novel-sars-cov-2-variants-establishment-of-b-1-617-2-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/07\/early-epidemiological-signatures-of-novel-sars-cov-2-variants-establishment-of-b-1-617-2-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Epidemiological Signatures of Novel SARS-CoV-2 Variants Establishment of B.1.617.2 in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A study in the UK suggested that many SARS-CoV-2 cases were S-gene positive, a pattern associated with the B.1.617.2 variant, which the authors suggest may become dominant over B.1.1.7. In early 2021, the majority of positive SARS-CoV-2 tests in England were genomically sequenced (74% in April 2021), with the sequencing subject to processing delays: 21% of sequencing results were available within 1 week, 44% within 2 weeks, and 66% within 3 weeks (as of 27th May 2021). S-gene positive cases were estimated to be doubling every 7 days overall in England, and as rapidly as every 5 days in some regions with known outbreaks of B.1.617.2. The authors suggest prioritizing sequencing of S-gene positive cases in countries where this variant is newly detected.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Challen et al.\u00a0(June 7, 2021). Early Epidemiological Signatures of Novel SARS-CoV-2 Variants Establishment of B.1.617.2 in England. Pre-print downloaded Jun 7 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.06.05.21258365\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.06.05.21258365<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A study in the UK suggested that many SARS-CoV-2 cases were S-gene positive, a pattern associated with the B.1.617.2 variant, which the authors suggest may become dominant over B.1.1.7. In early 2021, the majority of positive SARS-CoV-2 tests in England were genomically sequenced (74% in April 2021), with the sequencing subject to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/07\/early-epidemiological-signatures-of-novel-sars-cov-2-variants-establishment-of-b-1-617-2-in-england\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38,159],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-10227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","tag-variants","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10228,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10227\/revisions\/10228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10227"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}