Imagine you are a researcher in New Delhi. You hear reports coming in that coronavirus patients in your area are present
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Imagine you are a researcher in New Delhi. You hear reports coming in that coronavirus patients in your area are present
Imagine you are a researcher in New Delhi. You hear reportscoming in that coronavirus patients in your area are presentingwith a more severe form of the disease with extremely high rates ofsepticaemia (infection within the blood) and multiorgan failure.Both coronavirus and the bacteria Haemophilusinfluenzae have been isolated in the blood of some of thesepatients. It is your job to design a study to answer the followingquestion: Is this more severe disease caused by a new variantof coronavirus, a new type of H. influenzae, or are bothpathogens somehow involved? Design a clinical study that willcollect and analyse samples to try to answer this question (4marks) Describe the potential results of this study (3 marks)Discuss how the potential results help identifying the cause ofsevere symptoms (3 marks)