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Season 2020 · Episode 8

Landed Tue, 19 May 2020 · 16:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m

Season 2020, Episode 8 of Horizon aired Tuesday, 19 May 2020 at 9pm UK time on BBC iPlayer.

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S2020E08Coronavirus Special - Part 260mDr Chris van Tulleken, Dr Hannah Fry and Michael Mosley examine the latest research and explore some of the big questions about Covid-19 and the pandemic it has created. Michael visits the UK government's high-security laboratory Porton Down, where vaccines are being tested. He also uncovers what the experience of the 2002 SARs epidemic reveals about this one. Both were caused by coronaviruses, but certain key changes to today's virus have allowed it to infect the world, where SARs was contained.

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