Communications Biology (May 2022)

Combining genomic and epidemiological data to compare the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 variants Alpha and Iota

  • Mary E. Petrone,
  • Jessica E. Rothman,
  • Mallery I. Breban,
  • Isabel M. Ott,
  • Alexis Russell,
  • Erica Lasek-Nesselquist,
  • Hamada Badr,
  • Kevin Kelly,
  • Greg Omerza,
  • Nicholas Renzette,
  • Anne E. Watkins,
  • Chaney C. Kalinich,
  • Tara Alpert,
  • Anderson F. Brito,
  • Rebecca Earnest,
  • Irina R. Tikhonova,
  • Christopher Castaldi,
  • John P. Kelly,
  • Matthew Shudt,
  • Jonathan Plitnick,
  • Erasmus Schneider,
  • Steven Murphy,
  • Caleb Neal,
  • Eva Laszlo,
  • Ahmad Altajar,
  • Claire Pearson,
  • Anthony Muyombwe,
  • Randy Downing,
  • Jafar Razeq,
  • Linda Niccolai,
  • Madeline S. Wilson,
  • Margaret L. Anderson,
  • Jianhui Wang,
  • Chen Liu,
  • Pei Hui,
  • Shrikant Mane,
  • Bradford P. Taylor,
  • William P. Hanage,
  • Marie L. Landry,
  • David R. Peaper,
  • Kaya Bilguvar,
  • Joseph R. Fauver,
  • Chantal B. F. Vogels,
  • Lauren M. Gardner,
  • Virginia E. Pitzer,
  • Kirsten St. George,
  • Mark D. Adams,
  • Nathan D. Grubaugh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03347-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The Alpha and Iota SARS-CoV-2 variants exhibit up to 50% greater transmissibility compared to other circulating variants in Connecticut in early 2021.