Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP - Edinburgh central admin)

自大流行开始以来，成千上万的研究人员的工作中断，无法获得实验室设备或旅行。他们愿意为COVID建模工作做出贡献。RAMP解决了协调和集中整个英国努力的需要。计算机建模可能是一个独特的领域，因为封锁实际上增强了这个领域的能力，尽管一旦限制放松，我们将继续用新的或重新用途的资金协调项目，直到危机真正结束。独特的封锁形势和COVID前所未有的重要性意味着，在没有直接资金的情况下，新知识的产生也在迅速发展。在medarXiV、arXiV和其他预印本服务器上，以及该领域所有知名科学家的收件箱中，出现了数千篇显然与COViD相关的预印本。然而，这部分工作缺乏重点，大量重复，往往缺乏处理我们面临的实际危机细节的特异性。该项目的中心目标是为这项工作提供重点，并促进知识向决策的转移。此外，作为RAMP和政府的SPI-M和SAGE委员会的共同成员，我们现在并将继续作为向社区解决政策问题的渠道，并将有希望的工作途径升级到决策者。RAMP提供了一种机制，通过这种机制，不需要直接资助的有用工作可以立即开始。

Since the pandemic began, many thousands of researchers have had their work interrupted, with no access to laboratory equipment or travel. They stand willing and to contribute to COVID modelling effort. RAMP addresses the need to coordinate and focus the efforts across the UK. Computer modelling is perhaps unique as an area where capacity is actually enhanced by the lockdown, although we will continue to coordinate projects with new or repurposed funding once restrictions are relaxed until the crisis is truly over.The unique situation of lockdown and unprecidented importance of COVID has meant that the generation of new knowledge has advanced apace without direct funding. Thousands of apparently COViD related preprints have appeared across medarXiV, arXiV and other preprint servers, and in the inboxes of all prominent scientists in the field. However this body of work is unfocussed, hugely repetitive and often lacks the specificity to deal with the details of the actual crisis we face. The central aim of this project is to provide focus to this effort, and facilitate the knowledge transfer to policy-making.In addition, we are and will continue to act as a channel for addressing policy questions to the community and escalating promising avenues of work to decision-makers, with co-membership of RAMP and the government's SPI-M and SAGE committees.RAMP provides a mechanism by which useful work which does not require direct funding can get underway immediately.