About

This site lays out the evidence and facts about the virus, the disease, the epidemic, and its control.

Prepared by leading researchers and science writers, this series of short articles addresses questions of interest to individuals seeking information on the coronavirus outbreak, whether for personal or professional reasons.

The information in each article was correct, to our knowledge, at the date of publication.

This website does not publish original research; readers with a deeper interest in the science can find links to primary sources in each article.

This website also does not present policy statements, health or travel advice, or the latest statistics on coronavirus cases and deaths. Those who are seeking information on these topics should visit official websites for authoritative advice, including:

UK government

• Coronavirus (COVID-19): what you need to do
• Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE): Coronavirus (COVID-19) response

World Health Organization

• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Pandemic
• Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Myth busters

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

• COVID-19

Other sources of information

• Our World in Data - Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)
• Worldometer - COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
• Johns Hopkins University - COVID-19 Dashboard
• Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service

Team

Editor

• Christopher Dye University of Oxford

Contributing editors

• Ewan Birney EMBL-EBI, Cambridge
• John Edmunds London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• Neil Ferguson Imperial College London
• Charles Godfray Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
• Margaret Hosie MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
• Ajit Lalvani Imperial College London
• Anthony Scott London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• Simon Wessely King’s College London

Production team (EMBL-EBI, Cambridge)

European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)

• Jo McEntyre
• Lindsey Crosswell
• Christine Ferguson
• Audrey Hamelers
• Victoria Hatch
• Ken Hawkins
• Steven Newhouse
• Mike Parkin
• Rodica Petrusevschi
• Spencer Phillips
• Oana Stroe
• Peter Walter

This website was built using the Visual Framework for the Life Sciences and its Eleventy template.

Research contributors

• Nimalan Arinaminpathy Imperial College London
• Samantha Brooks King’s College London
• Hollie Booth University of Oxford
• Kent Buse UNAIDS and Global Health 50/50
• Teresa Bruni Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Rome
• Lauren Coad University of Oxford, CIFOR and GCRF TRADE hub
• Matthew Cotten MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
• John Drury University of Sussex
• Will Green Imperial College London
• Sarah Hawkes University College London and Global Health 50/50
• Ed Hutchinson MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
• Catherine Houlihan London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• Seema Jasim MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
• Eben Jones University Hospital Lewisham
• Munib Khanyari University of Bristol
• Adam Kucharski London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• Rhia Kundu Imperial College London
• Iain Lake University of East Anglia
• Yuhan Li University of Oxford and OMP-IWT
• Oscar MacLean MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
• Kelly Malsch UNEP-WCMC and GCRF TRADE hub
• Helen McDonald London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• E.J. Milner-Gulland University of Oxford, GCRF TRADE hub and OMP-IWT
• Sema Nickbakhsh MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
• Lucy Okell Imperial College London
• Massimo Palmarini MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
• Arvind Patel MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
• Oliver Pybus University of Oxford
• Timesh Pillay Imperial College London
• Anna Purdie University College London and Global Health 50/50
• Andrew Rambaut University of Edinburgh
• Stephen Reicher University of St Andrews
• David Robertson MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
• Brooke Rogers King’s College London
• Suzannah Rihn MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research
• James Rubin King’s College London
• Clifford Stott Keele University
• Sonja Tanaka Global Health 50/50

Contributing writers

• Linda Geddes
• Sue Nelson
• Vivienne Parry
• Annabel Slater