Reopening the NHS

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4.4 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Sonia Gandhi and Rupert Beale, scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, talk to Thomas Jones about the ways Covid-19 can affect the nervous system, the steps required to reopen the NHS after lockdown, the state of testing, and reasons for optimism about a vaccine. Read Rupert Beale’s latest piece on the coronavirus here: How to Block Spike Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the LRB podcast. If you subscribe to the LRB, you can get the first 12 issues for just £12.
0:08.1	To find out more, go to lrb.me forward slash listen. That's LRB.m.m. forward slash listen.
0:17.5	Hello and welcome to the London Review of Books podcast. My name is Thomas Jones. It's Tuesday the 26th of May and today I'm speaking with two scientists from the Francis Crick Institute. Rupert Beale, the group leader of the Cricks Cell Biology of Infect Laboratory, who has written two pieces about COVID-19 in the LRB and has been on this podcast twice before. Hello, Rupert.
0:38.0	Hello.
0:39.0	And Sonia Gandhi, the group leader of the Crix, Neuro-Degeneration Biology Lab. Hello, Sonia.
0:44.1	Hello.
0:44.8	And thank you both for joining us. And would I be right in thinking to start with it, your other work
0:49.7	has been put on hold for the moment and that you've both been working more or less flat out
0:54.0	on the coronavirus for the past few weeks. Yes, that's right. From my point of view, I'm a
1:01.5	clinician scientist, so I work as a consultant neurologist at University College Hospital, London,
1:07.7	and the National Hospital for Neurology. And then my laboratory at the Francis
1:12.4	Creek Institute, here we run a research program in New Age Generation, specifically Parkinson's
1:18.2	disease. So since just before the lockdown, our work has entirely been related to COVID-19 testing from the scientific perspective.
1:30.5	And from the clinical perspective, I have been working in the hospital, seeing patients
1:35.7	mainly with neurological problems.
1:38.0	And is that in-patients or out-patients?
1:40.5	And how does the protocols for protecting them from coronavirus in hospital, has that
1:46.4	changed? Well, I think both as a doctor and a scientist, life changed pretty dramatically
1:53.4	overnight when the urgency of COVID-19 was realised and in a hospital that meant that we
1:59.2	moved all of our elective work, so non-urgent
2:02.4	work to remote working. So all of those outpatient clinics were conducted and are still are
2:07.2	conducted by telephone. We also reorganise the way in which we do our inpatient work. So the
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