How Yale Genomic Epidemiologists Use Mutations to Track the COVID-19 Pandemic

Dr. Nathan Grubaugh is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and uses genomic epidemiology to study viral outbreaks. His background has led him to studying the mutations in COVID-19 to track the spread of the virus.

Faculty across Yale, including at the School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Public Health, School of Engineering & Applied Science and Faculty of Arts and Sciences are actively engaged in research, innovation, and clinical efforts to combat COVID-19.

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[cyseren]

No media is reporting this. What a shame!

[vincentkoh]

Why this video has so little views? It's a significant finding by a renowned university..

[hardysonchen]

remember that in aug - nov 2019, USA are having major casualties 40K+ under INFLUENZA on its last quarter year (which this number "commonly"" should be in overall annual rate), but no one are allowed to touch this case.

[Dihorse]

Great. Lets science tells the true story.

[meow]

Unfortunately, more people watch fox news rather than this.

[mprest]

This data will be especially useful as we get full blown testing done like South Korea, Singapore, etc....to identify quickly growing hotspots. Especially if people are free to move and we get the second wave.

[dundunsar]

I don't care about politics. I just want to know the origin of COVID-19 so that we could (a) find the cure faster, and (b) avoid it / similar viruses in future. No more pandemics!

[venugopal]

expect more of such presentations in detail...people go after conspiracy theories unless they have a minimal background about the natural evolution of viruses...we have default in thinking that humans are the apex of the evolutionary process....so please upload such educative discussions nad documentaries....

[ArtScienceWonder]

This is sorta the info I have been waiting for but what I really want to know is if this will effect the vaccine, and if this will effect the contagiousness of COVID19.

[jasonbrand]

It's mutating because it's mixing with different nationalities. It's similar to the rat Coronavirus.

[cjames]

the mutations can be traced to its origin can it not? People still deny their genes from africa eh...

[jasonbrand]

LISTEN TO ME ! Start with the amount of USA Resident that were in China at the time of the celebration in Wuhan.then document those who unboarded in the USA ! (not all did)follow the airline ticket papertrails !