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Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (HCoV-19)

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Re: Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (HCoV-19)

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Iran is ominously missing any cases according to this data. I guess you could say Iran is a known unknown.

Iran isn't represented in this dataset. Neither is Africa or New Zealand. I'm not sure what's meant to be ominous about any of this.

Re: Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (HCoV-19)

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Iran is ominously missing any cases according to this data. I guess you could say Iran is a known unknown.

seems the Iranian government can't be trusted with the information they put out there in any circumstance:

https://twitter.com/aliostad/status/1233668766124400640

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22457840

Re: Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (HCoV-19)

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Iran is ominously missing any cases according to this data. I guess you could say Iran is a known unknown.

Iran isn't represented in this dataset. Neither is Africa or New Zealand. I'm not sure what's meant to be ominous about any of this.

We know the virus is widespread in Iran. We don't know if it is widespread in Africa or New Zealand.

Re: Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (HCoV-19)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Iran isn't represented in this dataset. Neither is Africa or New Zealand. I'm not sure what's meant to be ominous about any of this.

We know the virus is widespread in Iran. We don't know if it is widespread in Africa or New Zealand.

So widespread in fact that it's even hitting those with high positions in the Iranian government. The most recent example being Mohammad Mir-Mohammadi, an adviser to the Ayatollah.

https://www.businessinsider.com/iran-supreme-leader-khamenei...

Re: Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (HCoV-19)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Iran isn't represented in this dataset. Neither is Africa or New Zealand. I'm not sure what's meant to be ominous about any of this.

We know the virus is widespread in Iran. We don't know if it is widespread in Africa or New Zealand.

No more so in Africa or in New Zealand [1] than in Finland, which is represented in this dataset. I'm not really seeing the basis for whatever conspiracy theory the original parent comment seems like it wants to point toward, is what I'm getting at here.

These are the early stages of what looks to be a pandemic of a disease at least an order of magnitude, possibly several orders of magnitude [2], more lethal than seasonal flu, which is no picnic already. Isn't that enough to be worrying about, all on its own?

[1] https://coronavirus.zone

[2] CDC headline numbers for the 2019-2020 flu season, vs. the commonly given 2% lethality guesstimate.

Re: Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (HCoV-19)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

We know the virus is widespread in Iran. We don't know if it is widespread in Africa or New Zealand.

No more so in Africa or in New Zealand [1] than in Finland, which is represented in this dataset. I'm not really seeing the basis for whatever conspiracy theory the original parent comment seems like it wants to point toward, is what I'm getting at here. These are the early stages of what looks to be a pandemic of a disease at least an order of magnitude, possibly several orders of magnitude [2], more lethal than sea…

What do you mean "no more so than in Finland"? The link at [1] says Iran has 1501 cases and 66 deaths, while Finland has 6 cases and 0 deaths.

Re: Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (HCoV-19)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No more so in Africa or in New Zealand [1] than in Finland, which is represented in this dataset. I'm not really seeing the basis for whatever conspiracy theory the original parent comment seems like it wants to point toward, is what I'm getting at here. These are the early stages of what looks to be a pandemic of a disease at least an order of magnitude, possibly several orders of magnitude [2], more lethal than sea…

What do you mean "no more so than in Finland"? The link at [1] says Iran has 1501 cases and 66 deaths, while Finland has 6 cases and 0 deaths.

I mean it's no more widespread in Africa or New Zealand, which are not represented in the genomic dataset charted here, than in Finland, which is represented. I've edited the earlier comment to clarify that, since the surrounding context evidently does not suffice on its own to do so for everyone.
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