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Coping with Covid

Making sense of a year of confusion

This has been an incredible year for scientific advance and collaboration, epitomised by the roll out of vaccines that didn’t exist a year ago, against a virus that no one had ever heard of .

And yet at the same time its been a year of incredible frustration. We are stil largely using the same methods to counter the virus that were used in past pandemics, going back a hundred years.
Here we look back at key the findings on who is most susceptible and why, and ask how to improve the strategies for reducing transmission.

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Presenter: Roland Pease
Producer: Julian Siddle

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26 minutes

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New Year's Day 2021 18:32GMT

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  • Thu 31 Dec 2020 20:32GMT
  • Thu 31 Dec 2020 21:32GMT
  • New Year's Day 2021 04:32GMT
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