Rice, Alan M.
Troendle, Evan P.
Bridgett, Stephen J.
Firoozi Nejad, Behnam
McKinley, Jennifer M.
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Bradley, Declan T.
Fairley, Derek J.
Bamford, Connor G. G.
Skvortsov, Timofey
Simpson, David A. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0157-1211
Funding for this research was provided by:
COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust
Article History
Received: 8 August 2023
Accepted: 7 November 2024
First Online: 19 December 2024
Declarations
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: This study did not require ethics approval or consent to participate, as it involved only the analysis of publicly accessible, anonymised SARS-CoV-2 genomic data and associated metadata (restricted to reported collection date and country-level resolution) from the GISAID EpiCoV<sup>™</sup> database, in accordance with GISAID’s terms of use. As members of the COG-UK consortium, we adhere to the COG-UK study protocol, which was approved by the Public Health England Research Ethics Governance Group (Reference: R&D NR0195).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.