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

Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 4:53 p.m.

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\u2019t 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\u2019s Coronapod we discuss how this database could help answer the biggest questions facing scientists right now, from variants to vaccines \u2013 could data change the game?


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