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What can Europe's largest study tell us about the virus?

May 01, 202015 min
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In this episode, ITV News Science Editor Tom Clarke and Health Correspondent Emily Morgan speak to Peter Openshaw, Professor of Experimental Medicine at Imperial College London. He is one of three leaders of the largest study in Europe analysing hospital admissions due to COVID-19.

Nearly 17,000 participants have been recruited for The Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium or ISARIC to find out why some people getting gravely ill and dying, where others have no symptoms at all.

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