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With a new strain of coronavirus spreading across large parts of the South-East of England and London, to what extent has Covid-19 affected how we view politicians, society and the scientists themselves?

Today Programme's Justin Webb spoke to Professor John Edmunds, an infectious diseases expert at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and member of Sage - the government's scientific advisory group, Professor Tim Spector, Principal Investigator of ZOE Covid Symptom Study app, and Professor Fiona Watt, Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council.

(Photo: A man wearing a protective face mask walks past an illustration of a virus outside a regional science centre; Credit: Reuters)