{"id":3130,"date":"2021-01-08T19:39:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2021-01-11T19:41:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T03:41:59","slug":"early-transmissibility-assessment-of-the-n501y-mutant-strains-of-sars-cov-2-in-the-united-kingdom-october-to-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/08\/early-transmissibility-assessment-of-the-n501y-mutant-strains-of-sars-cov-2-in-the-united-kingdom-october-to-november-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Transmissibility Assessment of the N501Y Mutant Strains of SARS-CoV-2 in the United Kingdom, October to November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A model incorporating information from genome sequencing and other epidemiological data suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 mutant strain 501Y Variant 2, which became the dominant strain in England in November and December 2020, has an R<sub>0<\/sub> 1.75-times that of the 501N variant, meaning that it is 75% more transmissible. Because of limited genetic sequence data, the authors were not able to quantify the transmissibility of the South African 501Y variant.<\/p>\n<p><i>Leung et al. (Jan 7, 2021). Early Transmissibility Assessment of the N501Y Mutant Strains of SARS-CoV-2 in the United Kingdom, October to November 2020. Eurosurveillance. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2807\/1560-7917.ES.2020.26.1.2002106\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2807\/1560-7917.ES.2020.26.1.2002106<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A model incorporating information from genome sequencing and other epidemiological data suggests that the SARS-CoV-2 mutant strain 501Y Variant 2, which became the dominant strain in England in November and December 2020, has an R0 1.75-times that of the 501N variant, meaning that it is 75% more transmissible. Because of limited genetic sequence data, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/08\/early-transmissibility-assessment-of-the-n501y-mutant-strains-of-sars-cov-2-in-the-united-kingdom-october-to-november-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[151,38],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-mutation","tag-transmission","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}