We cannot trust GISAID. For one thing, there was a July 2021 Omicron strain deleted from the records. For another, the researcher pushing to open source the database died suddenly at the age of 30.
We cannot trust GISAID. For one thing, there was a July 2021 Omicron strain deleted from the records. For another, the researcher pushing to open source the database died suddenly at the age of 30.
You are right, we surely can't. It's a criminal enterprise.
In fact, keeping the typos in their database might very well be another level of cover-up to hide any actual early occurrences of VOC's that might have happened.
Is the sequence on ncbi though? Do you have any further infiormation?
We cannot trust GISAID. For one thing, there was a July 2021 Omicron strain deleted from the records. For another, the researcher pushing to open source the database died suddenly at the age of 30.
You are right, we surely can't. It's a criminal enterprise.
In fact, keeping the typos in their database might very well be another level of cover-up to hide any actual early occurrences of VOC's that might have happened.
Is the sequence on ncbi though? Do you have any further infiormation?
I wish I had time to walk down every avenue, but I don't.