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Assessing the Extent of Community Spread Caused by Mink-derived SARS-CoV-2 Variants

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Author: Liang Wang, Xavier Didelot, Yuhai Bi, George F. Gao

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SARS-CoV-2 has recently been found to have spread from humans to minks and then to have transmitted back to humans. However, it is unknown to what extent the human-to-human transmission caused by the variant has reached. Here, we used publicly available SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences from both humans and minks collected in Denmark and the Netherlands, and combined phylogenetic analysis with Bayesian inference under an epidemiological model, to trace the possibility of person-to-person transmission.

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