The Great Challenge of the 20th Century - Are We Going Through a Bad Period?

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"The gear politics is part of the pandemic. It goes back to where the varas came from, and the way that was handled at the start," he says. "And it's panning out now in the way that the united nations, the world bank, the w h o, can function." He adds: 'You cannot find a solution to these problems just in america, just in the uk, just in china'

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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