117 countries have shared 340,000 #Omicron sequences with GISAID Initiative. Amazing global collaboration to advance our knowledge of #SARSCoV2 Details can be found at gisaid.org/hcov19-variant… Anurag Agrawal Chikwe Ihekweazu Rick Bright Department of Biotechnology Africa CDC Tulio de Oliveira Jeremy Farrar Trevor Mundel

Amazing how our very early analysis in Nov 2021 showed that Omicron was the most transmissible variant. We also estimated that would take over everywhere in the world and that is true now. Today >99% of infections in the world are Omicron. 1/

Pls also see here where we talk about the possibility of recombinants of #SARSCoV2. This is to be expected, especially w intense circulation of #omicron & delta. World Health Organization (WHO) TagVE is tracking & discussing. 🙏GISAID Initiative, 🌍🌎🌏 collaborations & science ICYMI: x.com/who/status/149…

Ongoing global surveillance and data sharing are critical to detect and characterize new variants. We don’t need to panic if we prepare, share, and collaborate globally.

Jeremy Kamil is also @macroliter.bsky.social Tulio de Oliveira Re:"these amino acid substitutions are RECURRENT & CONVERGENT" - Crucial point! If one just searches for BA2+452 mutations on GISAID, you realize there are a great number of ways BA2 is trying to get that mutation in a great number of countries - why the panicky attention to SA?

We are honestly tired of this. Global North scientists do not realize the amount of work & funding that goes to generate data in developing countries without previous infrastructure. They don't realize the effect of 100s years of scientific colonialism & data hoarding. Thread 1/2

Data sharing and open access is fundamental and #GISAID is a great achievement, a global platform that helped us through the #Covid19 pandemic ! The Rockefeller Foundation #WHA75

Thanks GISAID Initiative for setting up EpiPox database for #monkeypox sequences, alongside EpiFlu, EpiCoV, EpiRSV. This will enable global tracking of cases & improved understanding of transmission & epidemiology CEPI Maria Van Kerkhove @NIHDirector Jeremy Farrar Trevor Mundel World Health Organization (WHO)

Beyond generating and collecting genomic data, we also want to ensure access to useful bioinformatic tools to enable countries to analyse and interpret their own data to tell their story themselves - SebastianMaurerStroh GISAID Initiative Global Health Security 2026 (9 June - 12 June) #GHS2022

However, LMICs have done the best in terms of wide sample diversity and sampling strategy that enabled ID of new COVID variants rapidly in these settings SebastianMaurerStroh Noah Hull, PhD, MPH Global Health Security 2026 (9 June - 12 June) #GHS2022

Global experts convened by World Health Organization (WHO) name #monkeypox variants as Clades I, IIa & IIb. The renaming of the disease is in process (relates to the International classification of diseases) - efforts to avoid stigma & geographic association of diseases. GISAID Initiative who.int/news/item/12-0…

Fantastic progress for global health! Indonesia is🇮🇩rapidly sharing #monkeypox genome data 🧬. The country's 1st results shared today via GISAID Initiative. Sample from a 27-year old male in Jakarta, collected Aug 18. hMpxV/Indonesia/JK-NIHRD-MP0024/2022 G20 South Africa gisaid.org/hmpxv-phylogen…

🆕 Informative Note On 30 Aug, MOH Argentina informed PAHO of a cluster of cases of bilateral pneumonia in Tucumán Argentina without etiological identification so far. World Health Organization (WHO)/PAHO/WHO is working with Argentina health authorities. paho.org/en/documents/i…

GISAID Initiative, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) Global #Influenza Programme (GIP), is holding a three-day bioinformatics training workshop on the campus of Queen’s University Belfast. (27th to 29th September) Please, check the agenda at: gisaid.org/events/trainin…

GISAID Initiative new tools coming soon SebastianMaurerStroh

Each contributor to GISAID Initiative upholds true spirit of sharing, collaboration & trust. This community has strengthened World Health Organization (WHO) #GISRS for flu vaccines since 2008 & was a game changer for #COVID19. Now #RSV & #monkeypox. Soumya Swaminathan Chikwe Ihekweazu Pandemic Prevention Initiative The Rockefeller Foundation Amazon Web Services

"Submitters of pre-publication data should be explicit about whether they expect to retain any involvement in the use of the data, and different options should be available..." To be explicit, #GISAID is the option to protect submitters to publish and public health to see early!

Just published Science Magazine A universal influenza mRNA vaccine effective against all 20 lineages of influenza A and B, effective in experimental models science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Tulio de Oliveira is spot on. GISAID Initiative is the embodiment of World Health Organization (WHO) guiding principles, having earned the world’s trust by showing data sharing can be collaborative & effective but also: ethical, equitable & beneficial for all of humanity. Congrats to those that make GISAID possible!

🚨 At last! 302 new H5N1🧬 from US labs in GISAID Initiative (incl Dept. of Agriculture) shines light on the outbreak w/ 214 new🧬 from 6 mammalian hosts (dairy cattle, goat, cat, skunk, mountain lion, & raccoon) collected in 13 states. New data indicate shared common ancestor b/t TX & NM cattle🧬 w/