Summary
Our medical and scientific friends leave voicemails for their younger selves. What do they wish they had known about coronavirus back in January? Fergus and Adam chat to Professor Clare Wenham about what we know now and what that means for what comes next.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Ben Weisz, Natalie Ktena Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | I've just realized Fergus, I haven't looked at the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard map thing |
| 0:11.3 | for a little while. Right at the start start I was on there multiple times a day |
| 0:15.5 | but it's quite a sort of |
| 0:17.6 | it's sobering yeah yeah it's sobering because although in the UK and in many parts of Europe we are easing lockdown measures and so on |
| 0:26.8 | globally the pandemic is actually accelerating latest figures over 12 million confirmed cases and we're adding about |
| 0:37.2 | a million confirmed cases every week now. This is a pandemic which is very, very much still got a long way to go yet. |
| 0:48.0 | And more than half a million deaths around the world, which is probably an underestimate of where we are now. |
| 0:55.0 | Now as we explained in the last episode from next week we're going to go back to being |
| 0:59.6 | called Newscast but in this episode let's focus on the coronavirus and let's have a real |
| 1:06.7 | proper chat about what we've learned about the virus from a medical scientific and health point of view in this |
| 1:16.1 | episode of the coronavirus newscast. The coronavirus newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:21.0 | What is this virus? How does it spread? |
| 1:23.0 | How do we protect ourselves and our loved ones? |
| 1:26.0 | I got some test results back for coronavirus and it came back positive. |
| 1:31.0 | We're just kind of trying to feel our way into this new normal. I must level with you level with the British public. |
| 1:38.0 | More families and many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time. |
| 1:43.6 | Relax, they're doing great. It all will pay us. |
| 1:47.0 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:49.0 | And it's Ferguson, the Windsor Bureau. |
| 1:51.0 | The Bureau would become so familiar with. And we're joined by a friend of the podcast Claire Wenham from the |
| 1:56.6 | London School of Economics hello Claire. Hi. Any family members planning to |
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