Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies
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BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Prominent Labour politicians have claimed teachers are more likely to catch Covid-19, is that true?
England’s Test and Trace programme has been widely criticised, has it raised its game in recent months? A ferocious row has broken out between scientists about how effective fast turnaround Lateral Flow tests are, and how they should be used. We examine the data.
Plus, we examine a claim from Extinction Rebellion that British butterflies have declined by 50% since 1976.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:04.8 | Hello and welcome to more or less, the show that puts the fun into the fundamental |
| 0:11.0 | misunderstanding of data. |
| 0:12.0 | I don't blame me for that one, my producer wrote it and this is her last week on the show, |
| 0:16.9 | so we've all turned on each other. |
| 0:18.9 | Where was I? |
| 0:20.0 | Who am I? |
| 0:21.0 | I know that one at least, I'm Tim Halfard, and this week, Test and Trace has been widely |
| 0:25.8 | criticised, but has it raised its game? There's a new Covid test in town, does it work? |
| 0:32.2 | Are teachers at higher risk from Covid? |
| 0:35.4 | And are British butterflies on the road to extinction? And if so, who or what do we get |
| 0:40.4 | to blame for that? |
| 0:42.1 | But first, in perhaps her final, more or less appearance before she moves on to better |
| 0:46.7 | things, Kate Lambel, Hello. |
| 0:49.7 | Hello. |
| 0:50.7 | So what do you have for us? |
| 0:51.7 | Well I'm here to talk to you about something that was really popular last spring, but quickly |
| 0:55.7 | fell out of favour. |
| 0:56.7 | Oh, don't tell me, don't tell me Zoom quizzes, but aren't I bread? |
| 1:01.2 | The belief that this is all going to be overseen. |
| 1:03.0 | No, it's counting the number of tests the government is carrying out. |
| 1:07.0 | Everyone's just interested in vaccines now, but here, more or less, we're old-fashioned, |
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