Dasman Diabetes Institute developed a model to study the spread of coronavirus infection
Source：kuwait times
From：Taiwan Trade Center Kuwait
Update Time：2020/07/06
Dasman Diabetes Institute (DDI), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and Kuwait University, recently developed a model to study the spread of coronavirus infection in Kuwait. This model is called the Predictive Mathematical Model SARS COV 2.
The Predictive Mathematical Model SARS COV 2 takes into consideration geographic location, or where you live in Kuwait, and demographic information like age, ethnicity, gender, marital status, income, education, and employment. They use this information to stimulate the current reality in Kuwait and evaluate a virus containment strategy before its application.
This model and its capabilities have been offered to the MoH to support their efforts to contain the virus. DDI has also cooperated with the MoH to carry out genetic sequencing of the COVID-19 virus. This is a part of the active support and cooperation between the ministry and DDI that allows to utilize their scientific expertise to further study COVID-19.
In collaboration with the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS), DDI sequenced four samples of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). all virus sequences show a slight variation to one another, the genetic sequence gathered from these samples shows a slight similarity to the strain in Wuhan, China and Germany, with some genetic differences. Researchers have found that the COVID-19 strain found in other European countries is a diversified and mutated version of the virus.
Everyone is susceptible to the virus. However, older people and those with pre-exiting or underlying medical conditions are at a high risk of becoming severely ill with the virus. High risk conditions are dependent on age (65 years or older), diabetes, moderate to severe asthma, serious heart conditions, autoimmune diseases, obesity, liver disease and kidney disease.
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