{"podcast":{"title":"Dr. John Campbell","slug":"dr-john-campbell-7851784","podcast_index_feed_id":7851784,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/VG9554039150","website_url":null,"image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/7a133470-32e4-11f1-ae26-ef5a830a5f06/image/aacd596ff9b51467520b0238cfcd1c87.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Campbellteaching","episode_count":658,"summary":"Hello Everyone, My name is John Campbell and I am a retired Nurse Teacher and former clinical nurse based in England. I also do some teaching in Asia and Africa when time permits. These videos are to help students to learn the background to all forms of health care. My PhD focused on the development of open learning resources for nurses nationally and internationally. LinkedIn profile, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-john-campbell-5256223b/ Twitter, https://twitter.com/Johnincarlisle Disclaimer; These media including videos, book, e book, articles, podcasts are not peer-reviewed. They should never replace individual clinical judgement from your own health care provider. No media-based material on this channel is suitable for using as professional medical advice. All comments are also for educational purposed only and must never replace advice from your own health care provider","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T06:22:02.195523+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784"},"episode":{"title":"China, tens of millions contaminated","slug":"china-tens-of-millions-contaminated","published_at":"2026-09-17T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784/china-tens-of-millions-contaminated","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG5010292458.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG5010292458.mp3","summary":"China enters second wave Poor data, cases, infections, hospitalisations, deaths, genomes https://covid19.who.int/region/wpro/country/cn Population 1,412,600,000 Will be infected in next 6 weeks Daily new infection rate over an 8 week period Per week = 176,575,000 Per day = 25,225,011 World meter https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/ Actual deaths https://covid19.healthdata.org/china?view=cumulative-deaths&amp;tab=trend Over the next 3 months Therefore about 100,000 deaths per month About 3,300 per day Population 1,412,600,000 Infection fatality rate = 0.000207 Main variants https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202211/1280588.shtml https://asiatimes.com/2022/12/new-stealth-omicron-variant-spreading-fast-in-china/ Omicron, BF.7, (BA.5.2.1.7) Sub-lineage of omicron variant BA.5 Italy https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/12/29/europe-debates-tougher-covid-restrictions-half-chinese-arrivals/ Flight into Milan’s Malpensa airport Mandatory Covid tests for flights from China December 26 First flight, 38% tested positive Second flight, 52% tested positive Positives to be used for genomic testing Spallanzani Institute, Italy, Infectious diseases hospital It would be better if the coordination of surveillance should take place at a European level Screening passengers from China Italy, US, India, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan UK not testing arrivals from China 26 direct flights due in January Half a million visitors per year Immune-evasive / more transmissible variant Lots of people infected today Some with immune compromise Ongoing contact with potential animal reservoirs Potential for reverse zoonosis Professor Aris Katzourakis, Evolution and Genomics, University of Oxford I am not going to predict a direction, but there will be a whole lot of opportunity for rapi…","meta_description":"China enters second wave Poor data, cases, infections, hospitalisations, deaths, genomes https://covid19.who.int/region/wpro/country/cn Population 1,412,6…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1521,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dr-john-campbell-7851784/episodes/china-tens-of-millions-contaminated/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784/china-tens-of-millions-contaminated.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}