Capstone Project for CSCI 1820 ”The Significance of Regional MMR Vaccination Coverage in COVID-19 Disease Burden”

Many recent pre-print studies regarding the COVID-19 disease focus on investigating potential correlations between childhood vaccination and COVID-19 disease burden. It is noteworthy that the disease has its greatest impact on the elderly. Therefore, it is assumed that childhood vaccination could potentially confer acquired protection over SARS-CoV-2. For the purposes of this project, I have focused on the paper by Young et al., ”Homologous protein domains in SARS-CoV-2 and measles, mumps and rubella viruses: preliminary evidence that MMR vaccine might provide protection against COVID-19”. The object of my project is to elaborate on the genomic and structural referencing they have conducted on MMR viruses and SARS-CoV-2, and further investigate their methods of epidemiological data analysis by comparing patient data from 20 countries with varying vaccination coverage histories.