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Volume 29, Number 5—May 2023
Online Report

US National Institutes of Health Prioritization of SARS-CoV-2 Variants

Sam Turner, Arghavan Alisoltani, Debbie Bratt, Liel Cohen-Lavi, Bethany L. Dearlove, Christian Drosten, Will M. Fischer, Ron A.M. Fouchier, Ana Silvia Gonzalez-Reiche, Lukasz Jaroszewski, Zain Khalil, Eric LeGresley, Marc Johnson, Terry C. Jones, Barbara Mühlemann, David O’Connor, Mayya Sedova, Maulik Shukla, James Theiler, Zachary S. Wallace, Hyejin Yoon, Yun Zhang, Harm van Bakel, Marciela M. Degrace, Elodie Ghedin, Adam Godzik, Tomer Hertz, Bette Korber, Jacob Lemieux, Anna M. Niewiadomska, Diane J. Post, Morgane Rolland, Richard Scheuermann, and Derek J. SmithComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (S. Turner, E. LeGresley, T.C. Jones, B. Mühlemann, D.J. Smith); University of California Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside, California, USA (A. Alisoltani, L. Jaroszewski, M. Sedova, A. Godzik); National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, USA (D. Bratt, M.M. Degrace, E. Ghedin, D.J. Post); Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel. (L. Cohen-Lavi, T. Hertz); Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA (B.L. Dearlove, M. Rolland); Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, USA (B.L. Dearlove, M. Rolland); Charité–Universitätsmedizin and German Center for Infection Research, Berlin, Germany (C. Drosten, T.C. Jones, B. Mühlemann); Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA (W.M. Fischer, J. Theiler, H. Yoon, B. Korber); Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (R.A.M. Fouchier); Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA (A.S. Gonzalez-Reiche, A.Z. Khalil, H. van Bakel); University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA (M. Johnson); University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (D. O’Connor); Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA (M. Shukla); University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA (M. Shukla); J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, USA (Z.S. Wallace, Y. Zhang, A.M. Niewiadomska, R. Scheuermann); University of California, San Diego, California, USA (Z.S. Wallace, R. Scheuermann); Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (J. Lemieux); La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla (R. Scheuermann); Global Virus Network, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (R. Scheuermann)

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Table 2

Ranking of variants for US National Institutes of Health prioritization of SARS-CoV-2 variants

Rank Description
Numeric rank
 Ties are permitted
Defer
 If a group feels unable to rank a particular lineage
Low
 If a group considers a lineage unimportant and does not want to assign a specific numeric rank
Lowest If a group considers a lineage highly unimportant and does not want to assign a specific numeric rank

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