The Evidence: Young people, lifting lockdowns, USA and Kenya updates

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🗓️ 18 April 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Claudia Hammond and a panel of international experts look at the latest research into Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus which is sweeping through the world. As the disease spreads, younger people have perhaps not been getting the attention they deserve. How will this pandemic impact young people and do they feel included in government messaging? As lockdowns are lifted in China – how can they prepare for what comes next? And country updates on the USA and Kenya. On the panel are Professor Tom Kariuki, Director of Programmes of the African Academy of Sciences, Dr Christina Atchison, Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow in Public Health Education at Imperial College London and Dr. Michael Mina, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. The Evidence is made in collaboration with the Wellcome Collection. Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald

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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
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0:29.8	satire to silly, shocking to soothing, profound to just general pratting about. So if you
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0:40.0	Hello, I'm Claudia Hammond. Welcome to the evidence from the BBC World Service
0:44.8	produced in collaboration with Welcome Collection. Every two weeks during the
0:48.9	coronavirus crisis we are answering your questions. Now I've never seen a time when the science has moved so fast and so we're taking an
0:56.8	analytical look at the scientific evidence surrounding the pandemic with the help of a panel
1:01.8	of global experts. This week week from Kenya the United States
1:05.6	and the UK.
1:07.8	And countries can learn from each other's experiences but should governments rely on mathematical models, the views of the public or
1:15.0	local information where you work out what's happening on the ground in different communities.
1:19.9	And later on the really big question that half the world living in lockdown wants to know the answer to,
1:25.0	how do you lift a lockdown safely?
1:28.0	Joining me this week I have from Nairobi Professor Tom Karayuki, who is director of Programs of the African Academy of Sciences.
1:35.6	He's an immunologist.
1:37.4	Dr. Christina Aicherson is Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow in Public Health Education at Imperial College London, and she's
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