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What do the experts say about coronavirus? With Dr Ben Johnson

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In the latest episode of Never Mind The Bar Charts, I talked with Ben Johnson, a former Liberal Democrat councillor in Southwark with a PhD on the influenza virus from Public Health England and the University of Reading, and now working for Nature, one of the world’s most famous and respected scientific journals.

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Show notes
  • Sunder Katwala interview on coronavirus.
  • Bicester Village train station signs.
  • Phil Cowley on why Hong Kong reacted so quickly to coronavirus.
  • IFS data on key worker salaries.
  • My book Bad News, including a section on how different types of death get very different levels of media coverage.
  • How cats took over the world.
  • Find Ben on Twitter at @DrBenJohnson.
  • Photo credit for episode image: Brian McGowan on Unsplash.
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