SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse

Frank Konings , Mark Perkins , Jens Kuhn (1) , Mark Pallen , Erik Alm (2) , Brett Archer , Amal Barakat (3) , Trevor Bedford (4, 5) , Jinal Bhiman , Leon Caly (6) , Lisa Carter , Anne Cullinane , Tulio de Oliveira , Julian Druce (7) , Ihab El Masry (8) , Roger Evans , George Gao (9) , Alexander Gorbalenya , Esther Hamblion , Belinda Herring (10) , Emma Hodcroft , Edward Holmes , Manish Kakkar , Shagun Khare , Marion Koopmans , Bette Korber , Juliana Leite , Duncan Maccannell , Marco Marklewitz , Sebastian Maurer-Stroh , Jairo Andres Mendez Rico , Vincent Munster , Richard Neher , Bas Oude Munnink , Boris Pavlin , Malik Peiris , Leo Poon , Oliver Pybus , Andrew Rambaut , Paola Resende , Lorenzo Subissi , Volker Thiel , Suxiang Tong , Sylvie van der Werf (11, 12) , Anne von Gottberg , John Ziebuhr , Maria van Kerkhove

1 University Hospital of Cologne [Cologne]
2 ECDC - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control [Stockholm, Sweden]
3 Institut National d'Hygiène [Maroc]
4 University of Washington [Seattle]
5 FHCRC - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center [Seattle]
6 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
7 Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
8 FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [Rome, Italie]
9 UCAS - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing]
10 WHO, Regional Office for Africa [Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo]
11 GMV-ARN (UMR_3569 / U-Pasteur_2) - Génétique Moléculaire des Virus à ARN - Molecular Genetics of RNA Viruses
12 CNR - laboratoire coordonnateur - Centre National de Référence des virus des infections respiratoires (dont la grippe) - National Reference Center Virus Influenzae [Paris]

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Frank Konings, Mark Perkins, Jens Kuhn, Mark Pallen, Erik Alm, et al.. SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse. Nature Microbiology, 2021, 6 (7), pp.821-823. ⟨10.1038/s41564-021-00932-w⟩. ⟨pasteur-04098215⟩