So, we’re all in lockdown… What do we do now?! Though we’re saturated with coronavirus coverage in the news, I think there’s a lack of discussion about what happens next—and just how long it might take to beat this thing.
This video is a deep dive into the science of how we might beat coronavirus, from developing a vaccine to using a phone app to stop infections. It turned out quite long, so I’ve split it into chapters—the timestamps are below if you want to jump straight to a specific section.
There’s also a lightly edited transcript if you’d prefer to read than watch, available at [ Ссылка ] Many thanks to Marianne Baker for doing this!
00:00 Welcome
00:59 Part 1: The End
02:19 Herd immunity
03:42 Why we’d rather get it by vaccination
04:27 The ‘Imperial model’
05:02 How long will immunity last?
06:22 Part 2: Developing a vaccine
07:31 Bill Gates ‘wasting’ money
09:00 Deliberately infecting people with coronavirus
12:27 Part 3: How do we lift lockdown?
13:02 Antiviral drugs
13:59 Test, trace, isolate
15:50 Contact tracing with a phone app
18:01 Can contact tracing work?
19:49 Should we wear masks?
21:23 Keep up the good work, everyone!
22:28 Building more ventilators
23:47 Why we need to try everything
24:25 How long could lockdowns last?
26:07 Ending lockdown
27:03 Part 4: Reasons for optimism
# Sources
Here are some of the sources I used when researching this video:
The ‘Imperial model’ that forecast 500,000 deaths in the UK if we did nothing: [ Ссылка ]
How long will immunity last? [ Ссылка ]
Bill Gates ‘wasting’ money: [ Ссылка ]
Funding for vaccine development globally is scarily low: [ Ссылка ]
The case for a human challenge trial: [ Ссылка ]
Mobile phone contact tracing: [ Ссылка ]
Study investigating the feasibility of contact tracing: [ Ссылка ]
The science behind #masks4all: [ Ссылка ]
US guidelines for mask-wearing: [ Ссылка ]
And article on making and using your own mask that’s better than the official US guidelines: [ Ссылка ]
Great video about why ventilator design is really, really hard: [ Ссылка ]
Podcast about the logistics of making ventilators: [ Ссылка ]
Why we should try physical distancing now just in case (the same arguments apply to trying test, trace and isolate in the hope that it works): [ Ссылка ]
The graphs of repeated UK lockdowns comes from this study: [ Ссылка ]
Photo of Bill Gates CC-BY OnInnovation [ Ссылка ]
# Credits
Dr Andrew Steele
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Dr Tran Nguyen
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Special thanks to Tran, who is a frontline doctor and therefore rather busy at the moment, for taking time out between her shifts to help me film this!
# English subtitles and transcript
Dr Marianne Baker
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