What's Next for Welcombe?

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Sir jeremy ferrar of welcome, talks about what omicron means for the course of the pandemic. His relationship with tony fouche and the need to take what he calls catalytic risks now. Talks about the huge role that business has played and needs to keep playing in leading cove response. He describes what he calls second and third generation vaccine still to come. And makes a plea for all of us to say, never again, and to push for the necessary reform to make that a reality.

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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