Controlling Covid-19: lockdown, or let rip?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week, news of the people catching coronavirus on purpose; those waiting-out the pandemic in an old nuclear bunker, and the good news that lullabies send babies to sleep regardless of what language they're in! Plus, "lockdown, or let rip?" what's the best way to control the coronavirus pandemic? Opinions are divided, and we're joined by four leading experts to debate the best solution... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.0	Hello.
0:04.0	Hello.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:06.0	Science and that is the same
0:10.0	physics, medicine, nature, or
0:12.0	time, the brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello, welcome to the naked scientist.
0:18.0	This is the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine.
0:22.0	With me, Chris Smith.
0:22.9	And with me, Eva Higginbotham, this week,
0:25.2	news of the people catching coronavirus on purpose.
0:28.6	Would you wait out the pandemic in an old nuclear bunker?
0:31.4	And the good news that lullabies send babies to sleep regardless of what language they're in.
0:36.0	Plus lockdown or let rip what is the best way to control the coronavirus pandemic.
0:41.9	Opinions are divided and will be debating the issue
0:44.4	with four leading experts. The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. At a time when most of us are doing at a time when most of us are doing our best to avoid catching coronavirus,
1:02.0	it seems surprising that there will soon
1:04.4	be some individuals in the UK getting infected on purpose.
1:09.2	But that is the goal of a new study announced this week by UK scientists who supported by a 34 million
1:15.2	pound investment from the British government are setting up what are called challenge studies.
1:19.6	Volunteers isolated in a laboratory are going to be exposed to the SARS-Kovi-2 virus that causes
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