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SUBMITTER: Lemey P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7885927 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lemey Philippe P Ruktanonchai Nick N Hong Samuel L SL Colizza Vittoria V Poletto Chiara C Van den Broeck Frederik F Gill Mandev S MS Ji Xiang X Levasseur Anthony A Sadilek Adam A Lai Shengjie S Tatem Andrew J AJ Baele Guy G Suchard Marc A MA Dellicour Simon S
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Following the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections in spring 2020, Europe experienced a resurgence of the virus starting late summer that was deadlier and more difficult to contain. Relaxed intervention measures and summer travel have been implicated as drivers of the second wave. Here, we build a phylogeographic model to evaluate how newly introduced lineages, as opposed to the rekindling of persistent lineages, contributed to the COVID-19 resurgence in Europe. We inform this model using genomic ...[more]