Is the Future of Vaccines a Short Term Future?

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Mental health hasn't seen the same advances as cancer and dibetic care. I think we've got to try and create a community that will bring the various bits of science and prevention together to make a real difference in mental health. Vaccines are incredibly safe, highly effective at stopping you getting sick or going to hospital. What i'm really excited by is what i call third generation vaccines, so vaccines that will be against all corona varases. That would give us long term protection for hopefully many, many years to come.

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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