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SUMMARY:The progression of severity of variants throughout the pandemic - 
 Dr David Pascall (MRC Biostatistics Unit\, University of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20220112T160000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Ciara Dangerfield
DESCRIPTION:Despite the common belief that viruses evolve to become less v
 irulent as adaptation to its host population progresses\, evolutionary the
 ory suggests that this is not generally true. The variants of SARS-CoV-2 a
 ct as an interesting case study for this. Here\, I will present a series o
 f comparisons of severity between extant diversity and​ (at the time) no
 vel variants\, estimated over the pandemic\, and put them into this contex
 t.
LOCATION:Zoom
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