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Oct 2022
36m 31s

Talk Evidence - Inquiring about covid, b...

The BMJ
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It's October's Talk Evidence, and that means the autumn is upon us including those autumnal viruses. Here in the UK covid is on the rise, and Joe Ross is looking at some research on how good those elusive lateral flows are at detecting infection among people with symptoms of covid. Juan will give us an update on the covid inquiry, the collection of analysi ... Show More
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