{"id":1868,"date":"2020-10-29T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2020-10-30T11:07:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:07:41","slug":"emergence-and-spread-of-a-sars-cov-2-variant-through-europe-in-the-summer-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/29\/emergence-and-spread-of-a-sars-cov-2-variant-through-europe-in-the-summer-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergence and Spread of a SARS-CoV-2 Variant through Europe in the Summer of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Phylogenetic analysis found that a SARS-CoV-2 variant has emerged in Spain since mid-July with a frequency over 40%. Sequences in this cluster differ from ancestral sequences at 6 or more positions. The variant spread to multiple European countries, with frequencies increasing from low values prior to mid-July to 40-70% in Switzerland, Ireland, and the UK by September. It has also been seen in Norway, Latvia, the Netherlands and France. Despite widespread geographic transmission, no data has suggested whether this variant has a transmission advantage or affects COVID-19 severity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hodcroft et al. (Oct 28, 2020). Emergence and Spread of a SARS-CoV-2 Variant through Europe in the Summer of 2020. Pre-print downloaded Oct 29 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.25.20219063\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.25.20219063<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Phylogenetic analysis found that a SARS-CoV-2 variant has emerged in Spain since mid-July with a frequency over 40%. Sequences in this cluster differ from ancestral sequences at 6 or more positions. The variant spread to multiple European countries, with frequencies increasing from low values prior to mid-July to 40-70% in Switzerland,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/29\/emergence-and-spread-of-a-sars-cov-2-variant-through-europe-in-the-summer-of-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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],"topic":[24],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-geographic-spread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}