Thanks for this detailed comment. I do think the conclusions of the OP apply for now and one should act on them only so long as a vaccine-evading variant hasn’t become prominent enough to affect overall vaccine protection, and one should be on the lookout for it happening. (I may soon create a mailing list for people to get updates.)
After a few hours of hunting, I ended up finding that GISAID seems to be the central place for getting data on variant data. I couldn’t get access since I don’t have an institutional account, however outbreak.info both has an open-access API and pretty good dashboards for tracking variants.
I’ll have more of a look at them today.
I think now is a bit more like a [potentially brief] Spring and people ought to enjoy the weather before things get frosty again. Though I might update upon looking at the data.
Thanks for this detailed comment. I do think the conclusions of the OP apply for now and one should act on them only so long as a vaccine-evading variant hasn’t become prominent enough to affect overall vaccine protection, and one should be on the lookout for it happening. (I may soon create a mailing list for people to get updates.)
After a few hours of hunting, I ended up finding that GISAID seems to be the central place for getting data on variant data. I couldn’t get access since I don’t have an institutional account, however outbreak.info both has an open-access API and pretty good dashboards for tracking variants.
I’ll have more of a look at them today.
I think now is a bit more like a [potentially brief] Spring and people ought to enjoy the weather before things get frosty again. Though I might update upon looking at the data.