The Evidence: Covid 19: ending lockdowns

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🗓️ 16 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Claudia Hammond and her panel of scientists and doctors analyse the latest science on the coronavirus and answer the audience’s questions on the impact of the pandemic. Dr Lucy van Dorp of UCL explores the genetics of the virus and what they can tell us about how far it’s spread and how is it evolving. Can we be sure that vaccines being developed now will still work in the future? Professor Guy Thwaites of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam explains how the country has succeeding in keeping its cases so low. Professor David Heymann of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Professor Ngaire Woods, of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, tackle the question that people all around the world are wondering right now – how does a country safely emerge from lockdown without seeing a surge in cases? And Professor Lisa Cooper of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and family doctor and Director of the Shuri Network, Dr Shera Chok, discuss why black and other ethnic minorities in the US and UK seem to be so disproportionately impacted by Covid 19. The Evidence is produced in association with Wellcome Collection. Producers: Geraldine Fitzgerald and Caroline Steel Editor: Deborah Cohen

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan
0:05.2	I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy
0:10.1	podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really. Comedy is a bit of a dream job really.
0:13.0	Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,
0:18.0	making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.
0:22.0	But you know, I also know that comedy is really
0:24.3	subjective and everyone has different tastes. So we've got a huge range of comedy on offer from
0:29.8	satire to silly, shocking to soothing, profound to just general pratting about. So if you
0:36.1	fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.
0:40.0	Hello and welcome to the evidence on the BBC World Service with me Claudia Hammond.
0:45.0	Every fortnight in collaboration with Welcome Collection
0:48.0	we analyze the latest science on the coronavirus.
0:51.0	Answer your questions and cast our eyes around the world as the
0:54.8	COVID-19 pandemic continues. We are all living through unprecedented times, but how
1:00.9	each country adapts the science to fit their culture and population has of course far-reaching consequences.
1:07.0	Now we have masses of questions from you on all sorts of aspects of the virus so we will answer as many of those as we can. We're going to
1:15.3	ask what the genetics of the virus can tell us about how far it's spread and
1:19.4	how it's evolving. We'll ask why people from black and ethnic minorities in the US and the UK
1:25.0	have been disproportionately impacted by the virus.
1:28.0	And we'll head to Vietnam to discover how the country has succeeded in keeping its cases so low? And of course the question that people
1:36.2	all around the world are wondering right now, how does a country safely emerge from lockdown
1:41.4	without seeing a surge in cases. And joining me today to answer your questions
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