There definitely seems to have been an acceptance where previously, for a long time, the message in coming from certainly certain quarters, was we should pursue a zero covid strategy. But except that this thing's here to stay, at least for a while, i think everyone's accepted that. Now, even the people who previously would be arguing for a zero co covet elimination strategy. Cause that doesn't mean they know, back in march last year, two thousand 20, it might not have been better to try to do this. I'm not going to get into all of that, whether we should have tried to be like australia in new zealand. Because just because that maybe
With data on the Covid-19 pandemic changing shape with every new outbreak and new mutation, it's a complex task to make sense of where the story of the virus will head next. David Spiegelhalter is chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge University and an expert on crunching figures in order to understand successes and failures. His new book Covid by Numbers, co-written with Anthony Masters, seeks to shine a spotlight on the UK's handling of the pandemic. In this episode he speaks with the virologist and host of The Naked Scientist podcast Dr Chris Smith.
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