Genomic epidemiology of novel coronavirus (HCoV-19)

Has anyone tried to play the &quot;movie&quot; in the map. As I understand it, there has already been back-propagation of the virus from North America back to Asia. Can anyone confirm this is actually the case?<p>Edit: On a separate note, this tool is one of the best &quot;web meets science&quot; websites I&#x27;ve ever seen. Really nice work for those involved in its creation.

So am I reading this correctly that for example the strain in Lombardy Italy&#x2F;CDG1&#x2F;2020 (GISAID EPI ISL 412973) from 20.02.2020, has its origin in the strain collected in Bavaria Germany&#x2F;BavPat1&#x2F;2020 (GISAID EPI ISL 406862) from 28.01.2020.<p>So the outbreak in Bavaria that was thought be contained somehow made its way to Italy? Or do these kind of interpretations not make any sense?

Could it be the case that the least symptomatic variants of the virus will be the winning ones in the long run? I suspect that variants that do the most damage will be the ones quarantined and the ones that do least amount of harm (least symptoms) will spread faster.<p>If so, will this virus just domesticate itself (or rather domesticated by humans filtering out those more deadly versions)? By domesticate I mean that it lives with us just like the common cold without causing a 10% dip in the stock market.

Iran is ominously missing any cases according to this data. I guess you could say Iran is a known unknown.

Am I reading the documentation correctly, that you have to register at GISAID to download the sequences, and that you can&#x27;t publish any part of the sequences in subsequent papers? Would it be problematic in any way to just release them under a CC-BY-SA-NC license?

Had no idea that we could trace tiny differences so elaborately, this is amazing and gives me hope.

China always wants to be seen as a global influencer. Now they certainly are, to their great shame.