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Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head

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BBC

News Commentary, Science, Mathematics, News

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A scary government graph this week showed what would happen if coronavirus cases doubled every seven days. But is that what’s happening? There’s much confusion about how many Covid test results are false positives - we explain all. Plus, do coffee and pregnancy mix? And the Queen, Mao, and Gandhi go head to head: who is on the most stamps and coins?

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0:00.0

Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.

0:05.1

My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.

0:08.7

It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,

0:13.5

moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.

0:19.1

And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music

0:21.7

means we can tell those stories like no one else.

0:24.5

We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.

0:28.6

So whether you want an insightful take on music right now

0:31.3

or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,

0:36.1

check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.

0:40.2

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Hello and welcome to more or less, the show that multiplies

0:48.0

understanding without sewing division and which tries to make sure everything adds up.

0:59.1

This week, lots of talk about the virus spreading in the community, but how many people are being admitted to hospital with COVID-19?

1:02.6

Do false positives mean that official cases are actually fake news?

1:08.0

Spoiler, no.

1:09.6

Do coffee and pregnancy mix? And the Queen Mao and Gandhi go head to head to

1:16.6

head, who is on the most stamps and coins. But first, the UK is now seeing a second wave of

1:24.3

coronavirus, says the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and so new restrictions designed

1:29.4

to limit the spread of COVID are being introduced all over the place. Understandably, there's

1:34.9

much discussion of how bad the situation really is, and whether the Prime Minister is overreacting,

1:41.0

underreacting, or just overacting. So how fast is the virus spreading? Well, we got one

1:47.7

idea from the graph of the week, described here by the man who put it in front of our terrified

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