5min chapter

The Joe Walker Podcast cover image

Of Viruses And Vaccines - Peter Doherty

The Joe Walker Podcast

CHAPTER

The Problem With Science Interfaces With Economics and Politics

I've been a bit, but dubious about money in general. I just don't know enough about non-pharmaceutical interventions to know whether that's even been tried before, or whether it would work. Can you just tell the old people to stay home and let everyone else go normally? Sweden is a very homogeneous, well-educated population. They've had the greatest number of deaths in Scandinavia. That's what the British aim to do, is keep their older people and vulnerable people safe and just let it go. It spectacularly did not work in Britain. And if we'd gone down that road, our population's a third of the UK. We would have had 40

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode