PIRSA:20060022

COVID-19: Detecting the Dark Matter of the Disease

Bassett, B. (2020). COVID-19: Detecting the Dark Matter of the Disease. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/20060022

Bassett, Bruce. COVID-19: Detecting the Dark Matter of the Disease. Perimeter Institute, Jun. 16, 2020, https://pirsa.org/20060022 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:20060022,
            doi = {10.48660/20060022},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/20060022},
            author = {Bassett, Bruce},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {COVID-19: Detecting the Dark Matter of the Disease},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2020},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:20060022 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Bruce Bassett University of Cape Town

DOI 10.48660/20060022
Collection
Talk Type Scientific Series
Subject

Abstract

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.