Covid 19 – reaching the unvaccinated

BBC Inside Science

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Technology, Science

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In the UK we have seen a recent fall in Covid 19 cases. Good news, but we don’t know yet if this will be sustained. The virus is now thought to be spreading predominantly amongst the under 30s, most of whom remain unvaccinated. Young adults are the demographic most likely to be vaccine hesitant or vaccine averse. Kavita Vedhara from Nottingham University discusses the delicate balancing act of managing personal choice and collective responsibility needed to persuade people to get vaccinated to help stop the spread of the virus. Forget lab rats, how about lab cats? Leslie Lyons from the University of Missouri says we’ve long neglected the genetic similarities between cats and humans. And that understanding how the diseases we share in common affect our feline friends will help with treatments for ourselves. If you take lots of medicines wouldn’t it be great to have them all in one pill? That’s the aim of Ricky Wildman’s project at Nottingham University – a personalised pill that can be 3D printed to order, And we look at the life of Nobel prize winning physicist Steven Weinberg, famed for his beautifully simple explanations of complex science and also his love of a good argument.

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0:35.8	Hello, I'm Monty Chesterton and this is the podcast of Inside Science, first broadcast
0:41.2	on the 29th of July 2021.
0:43.8	Today, cats, Covid and cosmology coming up.
0:47.8	Dolly the sheep got all the limelight but what about copycat, the cloned cat?
0:52.2	Find out how studying cat genetics is helping human diseases.
0:56.2	Raffles, gold bars or free snacks, just a few foreign governments' vaccine bribes.
1:02.5	In the UK, the most you'll probably get is a sticker but should that change?
1:06.9	We'll hear how 3D printing your medication can sweeten the bitterest pill and physics
1:11.7	loses a star.
1:13.3	We celebrate the life of Nobel Prize winner Steve Weinberg, a theoretician who wanted to
1:17.8	explain the universe.
1:20.1	If you like a graph and who doesn't, there's a fascinating one in this week's economist
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