What have we learnt from Covid?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Brian Cox and Robin Ince return for a new series with an illustrious panel of experts to discuss what scientists have learnt from Covid and what we have all learnt about the nature of science by watching it happen so spectacularly over the course of the pandemic. They are joined by Dame Sarah Gilbert, creator of one of the very first Covid vaccines, Immunologist Prof Dan Davis and Dr Chris Van Tulleken, infectious disease clinician and broadcaster. They discuss the incredible speed of vaccine delivery and whether we have learnt lessons for future pandemics, the gaps that Covid has revealed in our knowledge of our immune system, and what the public have witnessed in terms of science happening in real time as we all lived through the pandemic.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, we're back for a brand new series of the Infinite Monkey Age, |
| 0:03.0 | and still aiming to solve some of science greatest mysteries. |
| 0:06.8 | I don't think we're going to solve science's greatest mysteries. |
| 0:09.0 | I'll go get a phone. |
| 0:10.0 | If we do one of our 28 minute episodes, |
| 0:11.8 | and actually get the answers to some of these things, |
| 0:13.8 | I don't think that's going to happen. |
| 0:14.8 | You don't know what's going to happen? |
| 0:15.8 | It's not going to happen. |
| 0:16.8 | But if you're in the UK and can't wait to hear the finest minds |
| 0:19.0 | we've assembled this time around, |
| 0:20.4 | the whole series is available right now, first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:24.8 | Hello, I'm Robin Inc. |
| 0:26.0 | And I'm Brian Cox, and this is the Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:28.2 | And welcome to a special show. |
| 0:29.6 | We don't normally do this, but it's going to be a kind of show of nostalgia, |
| 0:33.4 | like an advert for a butterscotch suite, |
| 0:35.8 | or an album that contains 180 different songs from the 1950s |
| 0:40.6 | that is not available in the shops. |
| 0:43.0 | And the reason that it's nostalgic is we've made a really terrible error. |
| 0:47.6 | Every now and again, we do a show where we're actually recording it |
| 0:52.8 | quite a few months in advance. |
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