Hunting the COVID-19 variants

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English - March 15, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutes - 72.5 MB - ★★★★ - 126 ratings
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New variants of COVID-19 have caused spikes in infections around the world and rang alarm bells about vaccine resistance. We speak to two scientists tracking mutant strains of the virus. How are these variants discovered? And just how dangerous are they?

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Guests:

-Sharon Peacock, Professor of public health and microbiology at The University of Cambridge and Director of the COVID 19 Genomics UK consortium.

-Dr Jeffrey Barrett, Director of COVID-19 Genomics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Host: David Aaronovitch.

Clips used: BBC News, UK Government, Sky News, UK Parliament, ITV News, DW News, KTLA, Bloomberg, ABC

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