Forecasts
SARS-CoV-2 forecasts for Washington and other US states
Here we show the change in frequency of SARS-CoV-2 variants over time in Washington and other US states. We use this change in frequency to estimate the relative growth advantage or evolutionary fitness of different variants. We apply a Multinomial Logistic Regression (MLR) model to estimate frequencies and growth advantages using daily sequence counts. We apply this model independently across different US states and partition SARS-CoV-2 variants by Nextstrain clades and separately by Pango lineages.
The Seattle Flu Alliance adapted Nextstrain’s workflow for countries to produce variant forecasts for US states. Further details on data preparation and analysis can be found in the forecasts-ncov-states GitHub repo (forked from Nextstrain’s forecasts-ncov repo), while further details on the MLR model implementation can be found in the evofr GitHub repo.
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Multinomial Logistic Regression is commonly used to model SARS-CoV-2 variant frequencies. However, please apply caution in interpretation of these results.
Use of Seattle Flu Alliance (SFA) data sets
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