David Winter
David Winter
@dwinter.bsky.social
@theatavism at the old place, haven't really moved here yet
ESR does a lot more than COVID-19. Genomics is increasingly how we support our national reference laboratories to track diseases in the community.
December 21, 2023 at 12:50 AM
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:
December 21, 2023 at 12:45 AM
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)
October 6, 2023 at 1:21 AM
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...
October 6, 2023 at 1:20 AM