Covid-19: Recovery

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Claudia Hammond and a panel of international experts look at the latest research into Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus which is sweeping through the world. Our panel of experts discuss how many people make full recoveries but others are finding that life hasn’t yet returned to normal months after infection. In India and Sweden, clinics are being set up to follow survivors of the virus and doctors are discovering that people are having difficulties assimilating what happened to them. And we hear about how three generations of one Spanish family all survived and how they are all recovering differently, including the 96 year old grandmother. On the panel are Seema Shah, Professor of Medical Ethics at North Western University, Professor David Heymann, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Soo Aleman from the Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden, Dr David Collier, Clinical director of the William Harvey Clinical Research Centre, Queen Mary University of London and Dr Netravathi M, Professor of Neurology at the National Institute for Mental Health and Neuroscience in Bangalore in India. The Evidence is produced in association with Wellcome Collection. Producers: Geraldine Fitzgerald and Caroline Steel Editor: Deborah Cohen

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan
0:05.2	I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy
0:10.1	podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really. Comedy is a bit of a dream job really.
0:13.0	Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,
0:18.0	making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.
0:22.0	But you know, I also know that comedy is really
0:24.3	subjective and everyone has different tastes. So we've got a huge range of comedy on offer from
0:29.8	satire to silly, shocking to soothing, profound to just general pratting about.
0:35.0	So if you fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.
0:40.0	The Combe is all about people and it's all about surprising stories. It's all about
0:45.0	finding out what's really going on and it's all about Africa. It's a brand new
0:49.4	podcast from the BBC World Service and you can find it by searching for The Combe, wherever you got
0:54.4	this podcast.
0:55.6	Hello and welcome to the evidence from the BBC World Service produced in
1:01.5	collaboration with Welcome Collection.
1:03.7	I'm Claudia Hammond and my panel of experts from the US, India, Sweden, France and the UK is
1:09.8	here ready to answer all the questions you've been sending in on COVID-19.
1:15.0	Now today we're asking whether it's ethical to deliberately infect healthy young
1:19.0	volunteers with the virus in the hope of finding new treatments or testing vaccines?
1:24.0	Or is it too late to get these kinds of complex trials off the ground
1:28.0	when some possible vaccines are ready for testing now?
1:31.0	And as the pandemic continues to spread around the world,
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