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🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:31.4 | This is the podcast of BBC Inside Science first broadcast on the 5th of November 2020. |
| 0:38.8 | I'm Marnie Chesterton. Hello. Coming up on the show, we announced the winner of the Royal Society's Book Prize, and as the city of Ismere |
| 0:46.8 | continues clearing the devastation of the recent earthquake, we speak to the scientists trying |
| 0:51.9 | to predict and protect against future shocks. |
| 0:55.0 | But before that, as England starts lockdown, this time with schools remaining open, |
| 1:00.0 | I wanted to look at the latest science on children and COVID-19. We know that children can |
| 1:05.8 | catch the SARS-Cov-2 virus even though adverse side effects are incredibly rare. Back in August, a South Korean study showed that children, even those with few or no symptoms, could |
| 1:17.1 | carry the virus in their noses for three weeks. |
| 1:20.0 | So the question really is, how likely are they to transmit the virus? |
| 1:24.7 | If you're a parent, are you in danger of catching the virus may be brought home from school |
| 1:29.4 | by your child? |
| 1:31.2 | That's the focus of a large British study out this week. |
| 1:35.0 | Dr Laurie Tom Linson from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine was part of the team |
| 1:39.6 | and started by explaining how they got such a large group for their open safely study. |
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