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David Winter

@dwinter.bsky.social

@theatavism at the old place. Using genomics to track pathogens at PHF Science. Haven't really moved here yet

David Winter @dwinter.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

ESR does a lot more than COVID-19. Genomics is increasingly how we support our national reference laboratories to track diseases in the community.

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David Winter @dwinter.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Last sequencing run of 2023 about to go on here @ ESR , time for a little review of what we achieved this year before we get stuck into analysing them... First a whole year of COVID genomics:

And epidemological curve of COVID-19 cases in NZ, shaded estimated numbers of cases caused by each variant.

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David Winter @dwinter.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

We try to stay ahead of the variant name game, and look for what might be able to replace our tracked variants in future. HK.3 and FL.2 are contentders, but their advantage is now very larger (1-2% per day)

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David Winter @dwinter.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

I guess our public covid report is going to be the thing that makes me finally send a message here... www.esr.cri.nz/our-expertis... This month has seen the kākāpō palette really come together as EG.5 became our most common variant. NZ and Aus remain really unusual in having room for XBC...

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