Covid-19: Vaccines and facemasks

Human trials on Covid-19 vaccines kick off in the UK. So what kind of protection might we expect?
25 April 2020
Presented by Chris Smith with Kim Hill, Radio New Zealand National. 
Production by Chris Smith.

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As human trials of Covid-19 vaccines kick off in the UK, what kind of protection might we expect, and when will we know. Also, the thorny issue of facemasks - do they help contain the contagion, or not? We hear from a researcher who has picked carefully through the literature, good and bad. Also, children as active ‘super spreaders’ of the disease, strange blood clotting effects, and a distinctive form of pneumonia caused by Covid. Dr Chris Smith joins Radio New Zealand National's Kim Hill for an update on what this week has revealed about SARS-CoV-2...

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