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June 24, 2020 14 mins

Today on the Razor Podcast Shini talks to Louis Koizia from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London about mixed-reality headsets that are helping to keep doctors safe while treating Covid-19 patients. Louis explains why these headsets are vital to treating the disease and enforcing the principles of social distancing under very difficult circumstances [01:30]. Shini also shares her adventures with mixed-reality headsets and tells us why it's taken this long for them to finally catch on [10:00]. 

Remdesivir is an antiviral medication originally developed to treat Ebola. While it wasn't effective it did show promise treating SARS and MERS in animal studies. Emma spoke to Dr Neera Ahuja, the principal investigator of the trial at Stanford University School of Medicine. She talks about how the drug might help in the fight against Covid-19. 

Dr. Auhja explains how the drug works and why she thinks the drug shows promise [12:49]. 


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