Why just youth?
Why all of them?
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I found this article very interesting and worthy of reading:
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Further to the discussion a couple of days ago regarding which countries are doing the work of categorizing the variants - from a story that says it is a virtual certainty the ‘Kent variant’ is in North America. It has not been detected in Canada yet (which is 24th on the list).
Britain is now trying to sequence 1 in 10, but was not doing so from the start.
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I was stunned that of all the genomic sequencing of the various strains around the world that the UK was responsible for sequencing 45% of them.
I’m not sure whether that’s by total samples sequenced or by numbers of known variants (the impression was the latter).
For a comparison with the UK, and my own personal interest, can you give the figures for France?
I will have to look at the original - just flipped a note back to my friend who sent me that table. He added where Canada was, but did not note any other countries.
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It could be either one of them, and the two are not wildly apart. The UK has been in the unusual position of having some of the best resources to address combined with a remarkable failure to do so, giving it the capacity to sample from an enormous population. The only country that might have been similarly positioned is the US, and they have had the CDC on the bench waiting to get into the game from the beginning.
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Flipped me back this reference, which doesn’t answer your question but does point to Kopstar’s.
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)32557-1/pdf
UK has accounted for ~39% of all sequencing done, US around 22%. Doesn’t speak to variants identified. Accompanying comment was that in terms of identifying variants, Canada has yet to find a variant not also found in the US first, which is not that surprising.
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Yes that gives the information demanded in an understandable way. On the scale France is pretty middling (for developed countries) as I thought it would be so a good comparison to use.
USA, UK and Australia are miles ahead on ‘Fraction’.
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I like the first reply to that tweet asking how come that many drivers were in 170 lorries.
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i would reply that it’s not what they might do in their lorries that matters. It’s what the do when they get out!
It’s this type of ignorance that is alarming about this Tory government.
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But the EU Commissioner said we don’t need to test them Grant Crapp is sharing the good news.
Crazy decision.
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Most of the countries won’t let them in without a negative test, let’s just hope they’re carry on quickly with the tests and they don’t find many more positive cases.
Of interest, going by continent, based on today’s figures.
Population % v Covid %.
Asia. 59.76% of World Population. 25.5% Covid cases
Africa. 16.72% world pop. 3.5% Covid
Europe. 9.78% world pop. 28% Covid
Latin America. 8.42% world pop. 16% Covid
North America. 4.73% world pop. 27% Covid
Oceania. 0.54% world pop. .06% Covid
Antarctica – insignificant.
Europe & North America with 14.5% of the world population, but with 55% of the world Covid.
Anyone any answers to this?
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That would be the Trump/Boris effect coming into play when combined with a high percentage of fuckwits that explains the figures.
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They’re also testing way more than the other areas so picking up way more cases.
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India has tested 160million
Yep, and has 10million cases, the second highest in the world. But 160million tests, whilst second most in the world behind the US, is just 3 times the number tested by the UK despite having a population that’s 20 times bigger.
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Ah that’s boris’s success. He slept through it
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