Talk:COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium

"administered by UKRI" is not backed/supported by the given source

The bottom line of the source name=":1" https://www.cogconsortium.uk/uk-launches-whole-genome-sequence-alliance-to-map-spread-of-coronavirus/ says that UKRI funded COG-UK, but the source does not back/support the information that UKRI administers COG-UK. --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 15:00, 18 April 2021 (UTC)

Agreed, @Himbeerbläuling. The source does not mention administration of funding, and after checking several independent sources that discuss the funding, I was unable to find any that confirm who administered the finances. So, I removed the unsourced statement. - AppleBsTime (talk) 01:13, 17 February 2023 (UTC)

Strategic purposes

Which advantage do COG-UK aim to achieve for us by their actions?

1. Somehow obviously, they want to know new variants of concern as early as possible, in order to start the non-pharma parts of the fight (i.e. lockdown, ...) against them as early as possible.
2. a little less obvious, their goal is to know immuno-escape-mutations as early as possible in order to readjust vaccines (and maybe monoclon. antibodies) as early as possible.
3. even less obvious: If you know a person 1 who was C19-positive first, and a person 2 who became C19-positive afterwards, you might question whether the first person could have infected the second one. The (partial) answer is: This is possible only if the viruses in person 1 and in person 2 are suffienctly similar, otherwise the question can be surely answered in the negative. This is well-sourced, as the reference name="jacqui-wise" cites Sharon Peacock saying “Mutations are expected and are a natural part of evolution. Many thousands of mutations have already arisen, and the vast majority have no effect on the virus but can be useful as a barcode to monitor outbreaks.”

--Himbeerbläuling (talk) 17:52, 18 April 2021 (UTC)