21/01/2021

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The new Covid variants are alarming. Brooks Miner and I build a dashboard to track the spread of the major ones: http://covidvarianttracking.com. We plan to update this daily.

I don't think there's a similar tool out there, so please do share this with anyone interested.

Features to be added soon: the proportion of new cases in a country caused by each variant, percentage of the population vaccinated, and how long it should take for the fast-spreading variants to dominate in new cases.

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Why I did this

I am not an expert on Covid, viruses, or vaccines, but I am a scientist with relevant training. I believe we have a responsibility to clearly communicate science to the public, especially in emergencies. So in March 2020, I started to write summaries of Covid developments on facebook and email them to friends and family, to help them understand the situation as it unfolded. This is an archive of those posts (created much later).

I also tracked the spread of alarming Covid variants for a few months at http://covidvarianttracking.com/ and mapped the consequences of faster variant spreading at https://tabsoft.co/2YwHCmZ.

21/01/2021

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Why I did this