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Asked by anon-256638 to Sophie, Sandra, Kimberly, Katy, Karen, James_the_Scientist, Hugo on 24 Jun 2020.
Question: Can you apply your research to see how Covid is being spread?
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Hugo Lewkowicz answered on 24 Jun 2020:
That’s exactly what my research is! I look at all sorts of ways different diseases spread between people, so when the pandemic started of course our team wanted to help out anyway we can.
There are many questions that need to be answered:
How long are people infectious for?
How many people will they infect in that time?
What does it take to infect someone you meet?
If you meet someone whilst infectious, what are the chances that they were already infected so you can’t infect them?And that’s just for starters. With Covid-19 being a new virus, we are still finding out the answers to some of these questions
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modlucia commented on :
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Rachel commented on :
Hi Sasha, I don’t work on how COVID is spread, but on a different part of COVID research – testing a vaccine to try to stop is spreading!
Nicole commented on :
Hey Sasha,
My team are working on gathering data from all the COVID DNA testing that’s being done. This is then loaded up on a dashboard to help public health agencies in the UK make decisions and track the impact of lockdown measures: https://microreact.org/project/cogconsortium-2020-06-26/b2735aed/
The different COVID strains have been grouped and given colours so we can see what the major ones are, how they change across the country, and whether COVID is getting more or less diverse over time. You can also use this info in the context of data from other countries to estimate how many times the virus has been introduced into the country form overseas.