Duncan Jarvis

Before we get into the evidence, I just wanted to say that obviously in this crisis, we're going to be focusing very much more on COVID-19 across all of the podcasts that we do, not just Talk Evidence.

So for the next few months, we'll be mostly talking about that.

As the evidence is quickly changing, we're also going to be doing some extra talk evidences, trying to keep you up to date with that changing picture.

So this is the point, if you've not subscribed to do that, we're on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever else you get your podcasts from, and we'll try and keep you abreast of everything that we know.

So now that's over, it's time to introduce ourselves.

I'm Duncan Jarvis, Multimedia Editor for the BMJ.

And as always, I'm joined by Helen and Carl.

Helen, can I get you to introduce yourself?

And Carl, how about you?

Great.

And I'm, as everyone's saying this, recording from Brighton and I'm looking outside and there are some seagulls circling.

So if you can hear that in the background, that's why.

So, Carl, you've been doing an awful lot around COVID-19 at the moment.

It's been a busy time for you.

What have you been up to?

Great.

Well, we're going to get into some of that in a second, but, you know, as always, we do a start and a stop in Talk Evidence, and we've got a couple of them now.

So, for a start, we are going to be talking about symptoms.

Now, I've had something.

I've had some sort of cough, maybe a very slight temperature, but this is the time of year that we're all getting respiratory infections anyway, so...