Massive Google-Funded COVID Database Will Track Variants and Immunity
Open repository will give free access to more than 160 million data points with details about individual infections
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A nurse checks the temperature of a woman on July 3, 2020, at Havana s Jose Marti international airport amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: Adalberto Roque
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An enormous international database launched today will help epidemiologists to answer burning questions about the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, such as how rapidly new variants spread among people, whether vaccines protect against them and how long immunity to COVID-19 lasts.
Unlike the global COVID-19 dashboard maintained by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and other popular trackers that list overall COVID-19 infections and deaths, the new repository at the data-science initiative called Global.health collects an unprecedented amount of anonymized information about individual cases in one place. For each i
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