Pandemic Wave

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Two years into the pandemic, it serf sounds from you like this is just going to continue. In some ways, cove ninten will become indemic in the way influenza is indemic. Yit's not going away. This is now part of humanity. And the next generations, we'll still be talking about omicron. I don't really like the comparisons with influenza. It's a little bit too simplicitic to say it'll become like influenza. We've hit peak within less than a month in london and it's already starting to come down. My guess is that this pandemic wave will come down fast as well.

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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