Welcome to CoronaPod. In this show, we're going to bring you nature's take on the latest COVID-19 developments.

And we'll be speaking to experts around the world about research during the pandemic.

I really don't know how this plays out. We also don't know a ton about this, you know, virus. So there's so many open

questions. I just have a really hard time making predictions because I don't know how the

outbreak is going to change. Hi, I'm Benjamin Thompson. Welcome to episode four of CoronaPod.

I'm still here in my South London basement. I've actually moved the recording

studio slightly, so I can see a different wall. So a whole new outlook on the world for me. But I'm joined

once again by Noah Baker and Amy Maxman. Noah, how are you doing today? Yeah, not too bad. Still in

my booth, still recording Corona Pod. Pleased to be doing it again. And Amy, how's California?

I'm personally okay. I'm

personally doing fine. But what's happening in the US is extremely upsetting. So it's 430,000 cases.

And of course, that's just the ones confirmed. So there's surely more. And almost 15,000 deaths with all

of the resources that we have in this country.

There's still sort of a lack of a strategy.

We're still not getting on top of this.

We mentioned at one point in the past that 3.5 million diagnostic tests have supposedly

been ordered by the UK, these antibody tests.

We've recently found out that none of those tests were deemed appropriate,

so none of them are going to be used. The government is now looking for ways to get it's money.

I hope they just donate them to other countries that will need help. It seems to me that what

the government did is panic-bought tests in the way that people have been panic buying toilet paper.

But in this case,

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