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

Frank Konings, Mark D. Perkins, Jens H. Kuhn, Mark J. Pallen, Erik Alm, Brett N. Archer, Amal Barakat, Trevor Bedford, Jinal N. Bhiman, Leon Caly, Lisa L. Carter, Anne Cullinane, Túlio de Oliveira, Julian Druce, Ihab El Masry, Roger Evans, George F. Gao, Alexander E. Gorbalenya, Esther Hamblion, Belinda L. Herring, Emma B. Hodcroft, Edward C. Holmes, Manish Kakkar, Shagun Khare, Marion Koopmans, Bette Korber, Juliana Almeida Leite, Duncan MacCannell, Marco Marklewitz, Sebastian Maurer‐Stroh, Jairo Andrés Méndez Rico, Vincent J. Munster, Richard A. Neher, Bas B. Oude Munnink, Boris Pavlin, Malik Peiris, Leo L. M. Poon, Oliver G. Pybus, Andrew Rambaut, Paola Cristina Resende, Lorenzo Subissi, Volker Thiel, Suxiang Tong, Sylvie van der Werf, Anne von Gottberg, John Ziebuhr, Maria D. Van Kerkhove

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