What’s happening in the #UK right now is further evidence of the lack of scientific leadership from ANY country during the #pandemic. We're gathering samples and doing PCRs of millions of people each day, but we're SO SLOW at sequencing and publishing viral variants. 1/3

A more organized CDC (US) or equivalent in UK/EU should be on top of tracking this #virus and its changes but they just aren't. It took us like 4 months to even discover that the virus had mutated when going through Europe, despite the fact that ... 2/3

... sequencing the #covid_19 virus takes 1 hour and costs some 100 USD. We are spending billions of dollars and seeing hundreds of billions of economic damage, but we aren't putting anywhere close to the amount of resources or organization required to properly track and study it