Rupert Beale talks again to Thomas Jones about his work at the Francis Crick Institute, where he’s helping to set up a testing lab for Covid-19. He talks about the challenges of creating a scalable process, explains why a successful antibody test could be hard to achieve, and finds some reasons to be hopeful.

You can find a full transcript of this episode HERE.

Read more in the LRB:

Rupert Beale: Wash Your Hands

Lana Spawls: How to set up an ICU

Thomas Jones: Quaresima

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