Prescribing Cycling; Temperature Checks; False Positives; Choirs and Covid-19
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
As the Government announces GPs should start to prescribe cycling Margaret McCartney examines the evidence for exercise referrals with Harry Rutter, Professor of Global Health at the University of Bath. Temperature checks are popping up in bars, restaurants and receptions but do they work or are they giving false reassurance? Plus while the pandemic progresses Professor Carl Heneghan explains another type of false result, that the chance of false positive tests go up. Navjoyt Ladher, Head of Education at the BMJ, talks us through two highly topical terms - specificity and sensitivity. Amateur choirs have been closed due to Covid-19. Margaret talks to Professor Jackie Cassell who is currently researching what aspect of choirs congregating is particularly dangerous and whether the singing is actually a red herring.
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| 0:42.0 | Just coming in now with my pass through the doors. |
| 0:46.6 | And a big sign saying that temperature checks are required before entering. |
| 0:50.8 | So I go into the temperature measurement lane, stand on the appropriate point, look at the camera, and it's telling me I have successfully read my temperature at 34.8 that seems a bit low to me. |
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| 1:13.6 | Welcome to Inside Health. I'm Dr Margaret McCartney and more my temperature later. This week is |
| 1:20.7 | choral singing a dangerous way of spreading coronavirus and why as a pandemic progresses, false positives become even more important. But first, an announcement |
| 1:31.9 | about bikes. The newspapers have been full of reports that GPs are to be encouraged to prescribe |
| 1:38.5 | cycling to their patients. But do we know how effective this kind of prescribing is? |
| 1:49.1 | Harry Rutter is Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Bath. |
| 1:50.5 | This is a tough one. |
| 1:54.4 | Walking and cycling are incredibly good for health. |
| 1:58.7 | Physical activity in general is a best buy for public health. |
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