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Re:Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (HCoV-19) by icegreentea2 on Monday March 02, 2020 @01:11PM (#22467033)
Yes, but this dataset is essentially manually populated. Someone has to isolate coronavirus from a patient, sequence it, and then upload it to GISAID.

So the question is why is it ominous that no one in Iran has isolated and uploaded a sequence?

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Re:Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (HCoV-19) by skrtskrt on Monday March 02, 2020 @02:08PM (#22467660)
I believe they meant that it's scary that we don't have data in here from a place where we have heard the virus is both spreading quickly and having a high mortality rate.

Not ominous as in any way indicative of a conspiracy or otherwise.

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