COVID-19: Detecting the Dark Matter of the Disease
PIRSA ID:
20060022
Série :
Cosmology & Gravitation
Event Type:
Seminar
Domaine(s) scientifique(s) :
Cosmology
Date de fin :
Speaker(s):
- Bruce Bassett, University of Cape Town (UCT)
COVID-19 is a mysterious disease associated with a large number of unanswered questions.
In this talk we review what is currently known, what is still a mystery and highlight some of our recent work on the role of climate, blood type and vaccinations on the transmission of the disease and on the extent of "dark infections", the asymptomatic and untested proportion of infections. We end with a list of open research questions that may be amenable to techniques from physics and data science.