32239: Outbreak response from home

As a DPhil student working with emerging viruses, it's been "all hands on deck" for our research group since the start of the pandemic. Staying productive while adapting to working from home is challenging, but being able to collaborate with great people across the globe has kept me motivated. I'm currently analysing epidemiological data from Ecuador, where I'm originally from, and helping our collaborators there to maintain their capacity to sequence viral genomes. This work is done alongside our contributions to the COVID-19 Data Working Group and HealthMap. It's an exhausting time to be a virus researcher, but also full of opportunities to learn and feel useful.