Communicating uncertainty is really very, very difficult. But there have been, i think, good people that have stepped forward. And we watch people like tony fouche in the united states,. The key to doing it is the humility that comes being willing and courageous enough to say, i don't know. These are the possible outcomes that we face from here on in - some of which we can't predict.
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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