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🗓️ 3 September 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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It's been months since the governments last covid briefing so Matt Chorley steps up to the plate and has re-created it. Speaking to The Times data journalist Tom Calver and experts on the ground Dr Rachel Clarke and Rohini Mathur, epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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1:01.5 | slash change. Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Shelley. It is |
1:09.3 | Fuffa for Friday. Coming up on today's episode, it's been six, seven weeks since the Prime |
1:15.9 | Minister lasted a press conference about coronavirus, setting out all the latest data. So we're doing |
1:20.8 | next slide, please. We've assembled our own crack team of statisticians. We'll also speak to |
1:26.7 | a doctor and an epidemiologist to get the picture on the phone. What exactly is going on as we |
1:31.5 | head into the autumn? That's our big thing, which is coming up in just a moment. First, it's our |
1:35.5 | columnist panel to date with the Times is Men in the Reed and from the Financial Times, it's Jim |
1:39.8 | Pickars. Let's start with, let's try and work out what's going on with social care because |
1:53.2 | depending on which paper you read today, there's a different plan. I mean, obviously we should |
1:56.7 | order to read the Times plan, which is that it says it's Saturday, Javan is pushing for 2% increase |
2:01.9 | in national insurance to pay for NHS and social care funding, but then the Treasury will only |
2:08.5 | want 1%, but then the possibly issues in that might be in this way. What's going on here, Jim, |
2:14.1 | because it's sort of interesting, the government finally commands the idea of putting up this national |
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