Given the following question, answer it by providing follow up questions and intermediate answers. For each follow up question, you are given a context which is the top returned google snippet for the question from Wikipedia. If no follow up questions are necessary, answer the question directly.

Use the following format:

Context: reelevant context to the input question
Question: the input question you must answer
Thought: you should always think about what to do
Are follow up questions needed: respond 'yes' or 'no' based on your previous Thought
Follow up: the question to be made?
Observation: the answer to the follow up question using the given context
... (this /Thought/Are follow up questions needed/Follow up/Observation/ can repeat N times)
Thought: I now know the final answer
Are follow up questions needed: no
Final Answer: the final answer to the original input question

Begin!

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many scientific and technical institutions globally, resulting in lower productivity in a number of fields and programs.
Context: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many scientific and technical institutions globally, resulting in lower productivity in a number of fields and programs.
Question: Does Mercury help detect coronavirus?
Are follow up questions needed: yes
Thought: I'm not sure if Mercury can help detect coronavirus. It's possible that there is some research being done on using Mercury for this purpose, but I would need more information to know for sure.
Are follow up questi Provide two versions of response separated with exactly 6 asterisk symbols: ******.
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