What Have You Learned From the Pandemic?

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In the last two years in your leadership role, are there new lessons that you've learned? Anything your perspective has shifted on that you maybe didn't appreciate the same way, or maybe its been reinforced in new ways? Herear many the importance of finding time for yourself. Covid 19 did not come out of the blue. Take warning seriously. And i think at a time whene politics has become very short term, where the key issue is the mid term elections or the next election,. Youre everont on a two to four year cycle at most, if not the 20 for our new cycle. It's really important to stamp ouk what we want in the 20 first century,

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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