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Hello, welcome to the program that brings you the latest breakthroughs in science,

technology and medicine with me Chris Smith.

And me Eva Higginbotham coming up updates to the list of

COVID symptoms to watch out for Chris Packum on the animal Einstein's giving humans a run for their money

and how scientists are using whale songs to explore the ocean floor.

Plus an in-depth look at COVID vaccines, how they work, what efficacy really means,

and will they protect us against viral variants.

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. Last year a holy trinity of symptoms, cough, fever and sudden loss of smell and taste were introduced as the cardinal giveaways

that someone might have a coronavirus infection and that they should go and get a test.

Since then, other symptoms have been documented, but they've not been regarded as

adequately specific to the virus to warrant inclusion.

Too many people it was felt might suffer from false alarms.

But at the same time we're currently missing a significant number of cases and with

the emergence of new variants of the virus might that symptom list be in sore need of an

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