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Hello and welcome to the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine with me Phil Sansom.

And me Katie Haler. Coming up, is reopening schools safe for pupils and teachers?

What did the World Health Organization learn about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic when they went to

U-HAN and the carnage from the last time the Earth's magnetic poles reversed.

Plus, what has happened to learning in the era of COVID? We'll hear from kids, parents and a psychologist.

And given the problems, what's the government going to do about them?

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How much of a pandemic risk is reopening schools?

With the UK making tentative plans to do so, two new studies have tried to answer this question.

Both are preprints, so I haven't yet been peer reviewed.

One is from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,

the other is from the University of Warwick,

and they reach almost opposite conclusions.

I asked epidemiologist Deep De Gertesani, who's independent of both studies, to take a look,

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