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New Paper (Other): Spike mutation pipeline reveals the emergence of a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2 #330

Open rdvelazquez opened 4 years ago

rdvelazquez commented 4 years ago

Title: Spike mutation pipeline reveals the emergence of a more transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2

General Information

Please paste a link to the paper or a citation here:

Link :https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.29.069054v2

What is the paper's Manubot-style citation?

Citation: @doi:10.1101/2020.04.29.069054

Is this paper primarily relevant to Background or Pathogenesis?

[x] Background
[x] Pathogenesis
[ ] Methods

Please list some keywords (3-10) that help identify the relevance of this paper to COVID-19

Evolution
Spike
Transmissivity

Please note the publication / review status

[x] Pre-print
[ ] New Peer-Reviewed Paper
[ ] Peer-Reviewed Paper Pre-2020

Which areas of expertise are particularly relevant to the paper?

[x] virology
[x] epidemiology
[x] biostatistics
[ ] immunology
[ ] pharmacology
[ ] other:

rdvelazquez commented 4 years ago

Some places this paper had been discussed:

bioRxiv comments: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.29.069054v2#disqus_thread
Twitter Discussions:
- Bill Hanage, "I think those claims are suspect, to say the least ": https://twitter.com/BillHanage/status/1256422856436613126
- Trevor Bedford, "I find this hypothesis to be plausible, but far from proven" : https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1257825352660877313
NYT Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/health/coronavirus-mutation-transmission.html