Salim Abdool Karim, head of South Africa's COVID-19 advisory committee, joins us to discuss variants, vaccination, and the national response, and Laura Spinney, author of Pale Rider, chats about the parallels between the 1918 flu pandemic and our current predicament.

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Variants and vaccines in South Africa, and comparing the 1918 flu pandemic