52: COVID-19

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🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Episode 52. This month’s podcast is all about COVID-19. The Eye’s medical correspondent, MD, discusses the latest developments, plus some faint lights at the end of the tunnel, and a team of the Eye’s hacks reveal how the pandemic has affected the EU, education, housing, social media, and the Street of Shame. Free face mask with every download! (Only joking, there are none left anywhere)

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0:00.0	Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.
0:03.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94, this time coming to you from splendid isolation.
0:10.0	My name is Andrew Hunter Murray, and this week we are going to be talking about the only story
0:16.0	Anyone has been talking about for a long time. I refer of course to Megan and Harry
0:21.0	No, not really it's coronavirus just like everything else.
0:24.0	Private Eye has been covering the virus from all different angles over the last several issues and this week we are going to present you with a round up of the most interesting stories that we've
0:33.9	been covering so far. We're going to be starting off with Phil Hammond, aka
0:38.5	MD, privateised medical correspondent, who has been writing Reims of copy for Private Eye all about the different aspects of the disease,
0:46.0	how it's proceeding in this country and others. He'll be talking about the mistakes he made,
0:50.8	as well as the things he got right and even even some reasons to be cheerful.
0:56.0	I'll also be talking to several more of privatised correspondence about how the coronavirus has impacted their
1:02.2	own specialist areas of knowledge, things
1:04.6	like housing, education, social media, the street of shame, and of course Europe.
1:11.7	But first, Dr. Phil Hammond, otherwise known as MD. I started off by asking him how he's been.
1:19.0	I'm coming to the end of self-isolation but still working as a doctor because I'm doing Skype
1:23.4	consultations. So I volunteered bravely. I'm actually an associate specialist in
1:28.9	pediatric chronic fatigue which includes a lot of post-viral fatigue, so I'm expecting a huge
1:34.4	spike in business further down the line. I'm 58, I have high blood pressure, but
1:39.8	rather boldly said I'd go back to the front line and my consultant said you're far too high risk all
1:46.2	you'll do is make the statistics worse which I thought was very funny but nice that some parts of the NHS are looking out for older doctors saying
1:55.8	actually it's not safe for you to be on the front line and some aren't and some
2:01.5	people perhaps a bit heroically are going at the age of 84 on to the front line
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