• Question: Were any of you involved in the COVID study?

    Asked by anon-271948 on 16 Dec 2020.
    • Photo: Ashleigh Cheyne

      Ashleigh Cheyne answered on 16 Dec 2020:

      I’ve not personally been involved in a COVID study, but I work at Imperial College London which is one of the Universities that are really involved in making one of the vaccines and advising the government about lockdowns. You might have heard of Professor Neil Ferguson, who works in my building, and he was one of the main people driving the country into the first lockdown we had. The head of my department, Professor Wendy Barclay, is also on several government scientific committees who guide the government in deciding what to do throughout this year because of COVID.

    • Photo: Amy Rattenbury

      Amy Rattenbury answered on 16 Dec 2020:

      I wasn’t but I did help the local hospital set up plans for how to manage the people who unfortunately died with Covid.

    • Photo: Isabel Fletcher

      Isabel Fletcher answered on 17 Dec 2020:

      I haven’t been involved in any of the COVID work in the UK, but I helped out in a study in Ecuador looking at how the disease spread in the country, who was most at risk and what people thought of the Ecuadorian governments response to the pandemic.

    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 17 Dec 2020:

      I haven’t been involved, but I work with people working to develop ways to measure COVID in waste water so we can track the frequency of infections in communities where it is hard to test people

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