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Hello, welcome to the show where we bring you the latest breakthroughs in science technology and medicine.

With me Katie Haler?

And with me Chris Smith coming up as England embarks on a multi billion pound healthcare

redevelopment initiative, what we're wondering should the Hospital of the Future look like.

Plus we reflect on the recent UK lockdown anniversary and crunch a chromosomal conundrum in our question of the week.

The Naked Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. This week as COVID-19 cases continue to fall across the UK, they are at the same time

surging in Europe partly as a result of the

spread of the Kent variant that is now becoming the dominant circulating

strain of the virus in many EU countries. The other factor is low levels of coronavirus vaccination that have so far been achieved across the EU block.

Some of that stems from skepticism in EU countries about the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca vaccine. So maybe that will be about to

to change now, thanks to the announcement of another successful

trial of the vaccine, this time in the US.

AstraZeneca have slightly revised their numbers since they made the trial results public but they're still very encouraging.

Chris spoke to University of Kent Verologist Jeremy Rossman to hear his reaction but first asked him whether a year on from the UK first entering a lockdown he expected us to be in the situation we are today.

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