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Coronapod: Google-backed database could help answer big COVID questions

Feb 26, 2021

19:18

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Global Do Health Data Base

02:43

Epidemiology - What's the Stumbling Block to Getting to This Point?

03:48

Vaccine Variants and Variants - How Do They Change the Transmission Dynamics?

01:50

Introduction

2min

The Epidemiology of the Covid 19 Pandemic

3min

Epidemiology

2min

Epidemiology - What's the Stumbling Block to Getting to This Point?

4min

Global Do Health Data Base

3min

Vaccine Variants and Variants - How Do They Change the Transmission Dynamics?

2min

Vaccine Trials - Are They Getting Results?

2min

Vaccines and the Pandemic

2min

Are You Vaccinated?

1min

A repository with millions of data points will track immunity and variant spread.

To answer the big questions in the pandemic, researchers need access to data. But while a wealth has been collected, much of it isn’t collated or accessible to the people who need it.

This week sees the launch of Global.health, a database that aims to collate an enormous amount of anonymized information about individual COVID-19 cases.

On this week’s Coronapod we discuss how this database could help answer the biggest questions facing scientists right now, from variants to vaccines – could data change the game?

News: Massive Google-funded COVID database will track variants and immunity

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