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I have domestic competition in the meme coining game. My wife called this winter “the great sickening”. Even without coronavirus this feels like the sickest season in a very long time. As long as I can remember in fact.
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I don't quite get how to read this graph. Is number of specimens somehow normalized against changing sampling rates? It doesn't seem to be rate of infection directly (ie infections/1000 or something)
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You're correct. I think the intended use is to predict next year's dominant strain to help design the vaccine. My hope is that in western countries the surveillance rate is approximately constant. It could very well not be though.
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