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- March 8, 2022.
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- Verity Hill1,+,
- Louis Du Plessis2,3,
- Thomas P. Peacock4,
- Dinesh Aggarwal5,6,7,8,
- Rachel Colquhoun1,
- Alesandro M. Carabelli7,
- Nicholas Ellaby6,
- Eileen Gallagher6,
- Natalie Groves6,
- Ben Jackson1,
- JT McCrone1,
- Áine O’Toole1,
- Anna Price9,
- Theo Sanderson5,10,
- Emily Scher1,
- Joel Southgate9,
- Erik Volz11,
- The COVID-19 genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium*,
- Wendy S. Barclay4,
- Jeffrey C. Barrett5,
- Meera Chand6,12,
- Thomas Connor9,13,
- Ian Goodfellow14,
- Ravindra K. Gupta7,15,
- Ewan M. Harrison5,7,16,
- Nicholas Loman17,
- Richard Myers6,
- David L Robertson18,
- Oliver G Pybus2,19 and
- Andrew Rambaut1
- 1Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- 2Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- 3Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- 4Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London, London, W2 1PG, UK
- 5Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
- 6UK Health Security Agency, London, UK
- 7University of Cambridge, Department of Medicine, Cambridge, UK
- 8Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
- 9School of Biosciences, The Sir Martin Evans Building, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
- 10The Francis Crick Institute, 1 Midland Rd, London NW1 1AT, UK
- 11MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London
- 12Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK
- 13Pathogen Genomics Unit, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, Cardiff, UK
- 14Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- 15Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa
- 16Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- 17Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- 18MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, Glasgow, G61 1QH, Scotland, UK
- 19Department of Pathobiology and Population Science, The Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
- ↵+corresponding author: verity.hill{at}ed.ac.uk