Coping with Covid

Published: Dec. 31, 2020, 9 p.m.

This has been an incredible year for scientific advance and collaboration, epitomised by the roll out of vaccines that didn\u2019t 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.\nHere 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\nProducer: Julian Siddle