The strain at the strain on systems has been astonishing. There are times when you've been on calls at four, five o'clock in the morning. So it's the being pulled in multiple different directions that i think took a while to get used to. I just don't think it would be possible without a great team with you. You've said we need to move faster than the pandamic. But at the same time, as you talk about it like this crisis is a marathon,. It just keeps going, right? so it's almost like we have to learn how to sprint non stot we do.
Sir Jeremy Farrar is UK’s pre-eminent scientific authority on Covid-19 and the chief executive at the research foundation Wellcome Trust. He joins Rapid Response to discuss the latest learnings of the Omicron variant – and offers a framework for reacting to the uncertainty. Farrar, whose research specializes in infectious diseases, also shares the two most important leadership lessons he’s learned during the pandemic: find time for yourself, and take warnings seriously. “Humanity often finds ways of going through some really bad periods to get to a good place. And I think we're going through a bad period at the moment,” Farrar says.
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