Flu Watch – our research during the last influenza pandemic – Virus Watch Study – join with your household to help us stop the spread of COVID-19

During the 2009 influenza AH1N1 (“Swine Flu”) pandemic we ran a large study called Flu Watch.

Since the beginning of 2020, we have been using data we collected from the Flu Watch study to start to understand how Coronaviruses might spread in the UK. You can read more about this research in this section of the website.

Number of enrolled participants in Flu Watch, baseline/pre-season bleed periods and different cohorts and data collection methods over time.

If you want to read more about the Flu Watch study, this research paper describes what we did in this study.