Episode 9: Covid-19 Origins + eScooters

Today on the Razor Podcast Shini and Emma look at the origins of Covid-19. Allegations that the coronavirus may have escaped from a laboratory, or even been created, are part of an info-demic of misinformation. 

Razor producer Neil Cairns spoke to Susan Weiss who has been studying coronaviruses for most of her career. He started off by asking if she believed that the coronavirus was created in a lab. She says that it’s highly unlikely that this is the case [01:20]. She tells us why she hopes that we’ll be ready for the next pandemic and what scientists will be doing to make sure that something like Covid-19 doesn’t catch us unawares again [05:13]. 

As we emerge from lockdown and begin to return to work, we need to start looking at how we commute without breaking the principles of social distancing.  John Irving might have the solution to the problem. John  is the founder and CEO of AER Electric, a company that manufactures e-scooters for the United States market. At the moment the scooters are banned on UK roads, but there is hope that that might be changing in the not too distant future [16:17]. Shini also tells us about her experience with her e-scooter and why she thinks it might be the perfect tool for  a socially distanced commute [17:30].