As of Jan. 21 2021, Our World in Data reports that ~52% of all confirmed COVID cases in the world have happened since Nov. 1, and ~74% have happened since Sep. 1. This maybe makes it a bit less surprising that we’d see more mutations over the past five months, since the amount of circulating virus in the world is much higher.
(Though there’s also more testing now than there was in the past.)
As of Jan. 21 2021, Our World in Data reports that ~52% of all confirmed COVID cases in the world have happened since Nov. 1, and ~74% have happened since Sep. 1. This maybe makes it a bit less surprising that we’d see more mutations over the past five months, since the amount of circulating virus in the world is much higher.
(Though there’s also more testing now than there was in the past.)