Data from a BBC citizen science experiment has helped predict how different strategies could control the spread of Covid-19 – according to new preliminary research from the University of East Anglia, Oxford University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic was a massive citizen science experiment that collected […]
The UK Government has awarded a specialist team of researchers more than £500,000 to find out if specially-trained bio-detection dogs could be used as a new rapid, non-invasive testing measure for COVID-19. In the first phase of the trial, world-leading disease control experts from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), in collaboration […]
Relaxing stay-at-home orders and allowing some types of non-essential businesses such as shops to reopen are the lowest risk measures to get the UK and other European countries out of lockdown – according to research from the University of East Anglia. Researchers studied the success of different social distancing measures across 30 European countries – […]
