Excited to see our paper on SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic structure out in Virus Evolution in early view: academic.oup.com/ve/advance-art… erik m volz @mikecharleston Scott Carver Raima Edem Xavier Didelot

After many months of hard work our analysis of the lineage structure and importation dynamics of the first wave of the #SARSCoV2 epidemic in the UK is out in Science Magazine today! science.sciencemag.org/content/early/… begin thread

"No human can possibly go through the thousands of coronavirus genomes generated daily to look for hints of troublesome mutations." - that's what a team of ~30 try and do daily at the @PHE_uk Horizon Scanning Meeting! theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Tons of new info about B.1.617 in @PHE_uk's latest technical briefing on covid #variants (which are rather excellent if I do say so). A 🧵on some key points. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

As usual Meaghan Kall has moved to Bluesky does the best summaries. We’re trying to get the data out as fast as we can - a lot of hard work by @PHE_uk team incl Natalie Groves Paula Bianca Blomquist erik m volz Jeffrey Barrett and lots of others

WE DID THIS gov.uk/government/new…

Have you ever wondered if a lineage is expanding within a phylogeny? Now you can find out with our latest paper bit.ly/3wdHqaS and software github.com/dhelekal/CaveD… @DHelekal AliceLedda, PhD 💙 erik m volz @DavidWYLLIE20 @HPRUged

There has been a lot of confusion about lower rates of hospitalisation with Omicron. How much is a consequence of intrinsically lower severity vs over-representation of Omicron among vaccinated and reinfected individuals? We try to disentangle these effects.

High-res SARS-CoV-2 time series gave us the rare opportunity to study both census and effective population size over time. The often enormous discrepancy really is quite puzzling — to me, most likely explained by a population structure conducive to local jackpot events.

This study was spearheaded skillfully by @QinqinYu, strongly supported by Takashi Okada and Joao Ascensao. Big thanks to erik m volz and Olivia Bold for collaborating and to the entire UK for investing so much into SARS-CoV-2 sequencing.