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What can a backpack tell you about the air that you breathe?

In this special bonus edition, Dr Alex chats to Dyson’s Vice President of Environmental Care, Alex Knox, to hear about the company’s work investigating air quality during lockdown.

The international study looked at what effect reduced congestion and human movement might have in cities around the world.

Find out how Dr Alex was able to contribute to the data as part of his daily commute.

Thank you to Dyson for sponsoring this episode of The Waiting Room with Dr Alex.

For more information on the research go to www.dyson.co.uk/newsroom

We may be in the middle of a pandemic but babies are still being born. Midwives have had to rethink and adjust how they do things but maternity services are open and caring for women twenty four hours a day.

Alex catches up with Midwife Naghmeh Teymourian-Yates to hear about her experiences working during the Covid-19 crisis as the Labour Ward Co-ordinator at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex.

Content warning: contains references to births, emergency medical procedures, mental health

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