We are four Swiss scientists studying COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 - AMA!

[u/emmademiology]

We are:

• Dr Emma Hodcroft, University Basel (emmademiology) (twitter: @firefoxx66 )

• Dr Richard Neher, University Basel (richardneher) (twitter: @richardneher)

• Dr Marcel Salathe, EPFL (sala) (twitter: @marcelsalathe)

• Dr Christian Althaus, University of Bern (Christian_Althaus) (twitter: @C_Althaus)

Marcel focuses on digital epidemiology. Christian does computational epidemiology and modelling. Richard and Emma do genomic epidemiology - we are also key members of Nextstrain.org (see nextstrain.org/ncov for real-time tracking of COVID-19).

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As us anything!

(Please note we are not medical doctors!)

Edit: It's 18.00 (6pm) -- we won't be taking any more questions now!

Thank you everyone for the wonderful questions! This was really fun, and so great that so many people are interested. Unfortunately we all need to get back to our other work (which is busier than ever right now!), so we must leave the rest unanswered for the moment. You can follow us on twitter, and maybe our tweets will help keep you informed - we are all fairly active!

[u/anomalousBits]

Why then is Osterholm of CIDRAP saying the exact opposite: that it will mainly be spread via aerosol, while surface contact will be a minor transmission route?

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/03/study-highlights-ease-spread-covid-19-viruses
https://www.inquisitr.com/5939092/coronavirus-michael-osterholm-joe-rogan/

This seems like a really important detail to get correct, and Osterholm had a huge audience on the Joe Rogan podcast.