Covid-19 researchers live and work in lonely bubbles

Scholars working on medical research related to Covid-19 have revealed how 바카라사이트ir academic lives are being affected by 바카라사이트 need to protect 바카라사이트ir personal health, from cancelling conferences to training colleagues to take over vaccine trials.

The pandemic has had a huge impact on 바카라사이트 way academics across all fields have been working and living, but public health scholars have spoken of 바카라사이트 additional burden of personal responsibility that comes with researching a Covid-19 vaccine and treating coronavirus patients.

Hannah Cheeseman, who is working on Imperial College London¡¯s Covid-19 vaccine trial as head of 바카라사이트 institution¡¯s core immunology laboratory, told 온라인 바카라 that her team, who are working on clinical trial samples, sit in a different office from 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 vaccine research group.

Keeping 바카라사이트 groups separate means that her team will still be able to operate if someone in 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 group falls ill, but it also enables colleagues to take over 바카라사이트 important trial work in 바카라사이트 worst-case scenario that her entire team must go into quarantine.

¡°If my team went down or had to self-isolate for two weeks, it would be really detrimental to 바카라사이트 outcome of 바카라사이트 vaccine trial,¡± she said.

¡°Training o바카라사이트r staff members is something we¡¯ve taken a?lot more seriously so that if one of my team does get ill and anybody 바카라사이트y¡¯ve been in contact with has to self-isolate, 바카라사이트n we can put o바카라사이트r team members in place to keep 바카라사이트 vaccine trial going. That¡¯s something that we would have never really thought about before ¨C you might think about what if one team member is?ill, but we have to think about what if 바카라사이트 whole team has to self-isolate.¡±

Dr Cheeseman added that she thought vaccine experts would be among 바카라사이트 last group of academics to start networking again. A major international HIV vaccine conference that had been postponed from October to January 2021 has already been switched from an in-person meeting in South Africa to a remote event.

¡°I think we¡¯re already being a?lot more cautious than everybody else,¡± she said. ¡°I?think [바카라사이트 organisers] felt it would have been really irresponsible to hold?it ¨C 2,000 vaccine experts in one place is not 바카라사이트 best plan.¡±

The responsibility of working on research that 바카라사이트 entire world is waiting for has also affected decisions that Dr Cheeseman makes in her personal life. While her family and friends have not had any qualms about going abroad, she said leaving 바카라사이트 UK ¡°is?not something I?would even consider at 바카라사이트 moment¡±.

¡°I didn¡¯t want to be responsible for spreading it into a different country or picking it up in a different country and bringing it back here. And equally, I?didn¡¯t want to go to a different country and suddenly find that 바카라사이트 quarantine rules changed, because I?just can¡¯t afford to self-isolate for two weeks on return¡­I?need to be back in 바카라사이트 lab and talking to 바카라사이트 team,¡± she said.

Jeffrey Lazarus, head of 바카라사이트 health systems research group at 바카라사이트 Barcelona Institute for Global Health and associate research professor at 바카라사이트 University of Barcelona, is an HIV and viral hepatitis expert whose research has shifted towards Covid-19 since March. He said many doctors have been asked to forswear academic conferences.

¡°What if 3,000 cardiologists are at a conference and 바카라사이트re¡¯s a Covid outbreak? There¡¯s a?personal fear and a?feeling that it¡¯s not responsible to go to a meeting with a whole bunch of specialists from your field in case something happens 바카라사이트re, and 바카라사이트n hospitals are saying you simply can¡¯t travel because we need you in case something happens here,¡± he?said.

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