COG-UK is supported by funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC) part of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and Genome Research Limited, operating as the Wellcome Sanger Institute. The Imperial College COVID-19 Research Fund, UKRI (MR/V038109/1), The Academy of Medical Sciences (SBF004/1080), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1197730, OPP1175094), the European Commission (CoroNAb 101003653), the NIHR BRC Imperial College NHS Trust Infection and COVID themes (RDA02), Amazon AWS and Microsoft AI for Health, the EPSRC, The Medical Research Council (MR/R015600/1), the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit for Modelling and Health Economics, NIHR VEEPED project funding (PR-OD-1017-20002). Wellcome core funding to the Wellcome Sanger Institute (206194). JTM, NL and AR acknowledge the support of the Wellcome Trust (Collaborators Award 206298/Z/17/Z – ARTIC network). AR is supported by the European Research Council (grant agreement no. 725422 – ReservoirDOCS).
COG-UK is supported by funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC) part of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and Genome Research Limited, operating as the Wellcome Sanger Institute. RKG is supported by a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship in Clinical Science (WT108082AIA). SAK is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation via PANGEA grant: OPP1175094. DLR is funded by the MRC (MC UU 1201412). WH is funded by the MRC (MR/R024758/1). We thank Dr James Voss for the kind gift of HeLa cells stably expressing ACE2. SL is funded by Medical Research Council MC_UU_12014/12. This study was also partly funded by Rosetrees Trust.
RKG has received consulting fees from UMOVIS lab, Gilead Sciences and ViiV Healthcare, and a research grant from InvisiSmart Technologies.
Acknowledgements: The authors are grateful to those teams and groups providing data for this analysis, including the Lighthouse Laboratories, COG-UK, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the PHE Contact Tracing Cell, Epidemiology Cell, Genomics Cell and Outbreak Surveillance team.
According to the CDC's source studies there's a lot of money to be made in panic.
If a virus is deadly or gets more deadly, it'll die off because it's killing people before spreading.
If a virus gets less deadly, it's able to be more contagious because it's not killing off people that spread it.
This is why we still get the cold and influenza seasons, they're not deadly enough to stop spreading. The symptoms are mild enough that you don't think anything of the sniffles or a cough, which is how it ends up spreading.
Ebola is deadly enough to kill off people fast enough to prevent widespread of the virus, and even then through changes it'll eventually have a "not so lethal " dominant strain (again, because lethality burns out a virus. Not killing people let's it spread further)
This was all stuff I learned in high school.... why is the world so stupid?
Here's an Irish joke for y'all. What's the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish wake? One less drunk.
Hahaha oh brother, ain’t that the truth
Ah, and you didn't say which one.
".....like, we are super cereal."
Just to add also: I love how that one part has a larger font size. Makes it easier for bugmen to skim the article and get their talking points lol
I heard the C.6.9.69 strain is really, really fun though.
Yeah, the kind you don’t take home to mother.
This really does scream what something a child would write or do by changing font size or spacing to make sure the report is two pages long.
Sorry I'm not afraid of a cold, no matter how contagious it is.
Target audience: THE SHEEP of America
According to the CDC's source studies there's a lot of money to be made in panic.
If a virus is deadly or gets more deadly, it'll die off because it's killing people before spreading.
If a virus gets less deadly, it's able to be more contagious because it's not killing off people that spread it.
This is why we still get the cold and influenza seasons, they're not deadly enough to stop spreading. The symptoms are mild enough that you don't think anything of the sniffles or a cough, which is how it ends up spreading.
Ebola is deadly enough to kill off people fast enough to prevent widespread of the virus, and even then through changes it'll eventually have a "not so lethal " dominant strain (again, because lethality burns out a virus. Not killing people let's it spread further)
This was all stuff I learned in high school.... why is the world so stupid?
Because the way you just spoke and reasoned about it isn’t how the drooling masses think anymore. There’s too much bullshit muddying the waters.
And also, if you like, die, then you're like, dead.
Surprised there's nothing about green food coloring causing supercancer or whatever.
wouldn't be surprised if they start releasing real bio agents at this point
No disease is more deadly than the banks and their puppet governments.
It super cereal