There is also the possibility that Zika WILL end circa Jan 2017 - the scientists evaluate results so far - then continue the next phase of additional work with OpenZika 2, after perhaps another Beta...

Maxxina:
I don't know how you are privy to some secret information about the "real" end date. Perhaps you might share your secret rather than name calling. I am relying on the OFFICIAL, WCG-provided, up-to-date information. Take a look here Research Overview and you can see that us "crybabies" are being told January 2017. As gb009761 stated, the way to end the thread is to correct the misinformation.
Cheers

The Research Overview page was 100% dead-on correct for UGM. I am counting on WCG to provide accurate information on which to make decisions. If the information on the Research Overview page is incorrect, then it must be corrected. It should not be up to us to look past the OFFICIAL status page and find some statement posted as a reply by a tech over a month ago in a forum thread. A month is plenty of time to correct the status page if it is truly incorrect. Some posters have speculated that the new work will be a new phase 2 project based on other postings. So when no one lays the truth out straight AND updates the status page, what or who are we to believe? WCG says that Zika is done in 6 weeks. Until the status page is updated, everything else is nothing but speculation.

Cheers

Progress fell to 39%.
End of discussion, come back in 3 years ;-)

Hi everyone,

Let me reiterate that the projected end date is an *estimate* based on a number of factors including the total amount of work expected for the entire project. We talk to each research team monthly and if there's new information about the amount of work expected, we update our numbers accordingly, which automatically calculates the projected end date. For OpenZika, the researchers had stated that they fully expect to have plenty more work, but didn't have an estimate of how much more work was to come. Therefore, while we were very confident that the estimated end date of January was inaccurate, we couldn't provide a more accurate estimate. Today was our monthly call with them, during which they provided an updated estimate, which is now reflected on our website.

This highlights just some of the challenges we've found in providing accurate information regarding a project's end date - this scenario is not uncommon and we often just don't have enough information to provide an accurate estimate. The researchers may not know ahead of time how much work they need to run through as that sometimes depends on the results as they come in. In reality, the only time we tend to be confident about a project's completion date is when we're within a few weeks away from it. We are therefore rethinking the project progress bar all together as it's become a source of confusion and misinformation.

Thanks,
Juan