Episode 36 - Bruno Ciancio - End of the COVID-19 pandemic?

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Science

5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It is April 2023 and more than three years have passed since the first cases of COVID-19 were recorded.

In this episode we ask Bruno Ciancio, ECDC's Head of Surveillance, to give an overview of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic until now, explain the current state of the pandemic, and provide a glimpse at how it may evolve in the future.

For all ECDC information on COVID-19 click ⁠here.

For general information about ECDC, please visit ⁠⁠ecdc.europa.eu⁠⁠, or follow us on ⁠⁠social media⁠⁠.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	ECDC on air.
0:05.8	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.3	Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.
0:14.8	Hello, my name is Nicholas and I'm your host for today's episode of ECDC on Air,
0:19.6	which is the podcast for the European
0:21.0	Center for Disease Prevention and Control. It's April 2020, and more than three years have
0:26.2	passed since the first cases of COVID-19 were recorded. In this episode, we will go through
0:30.6	the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, examine what the situation is right now, and we will
0:36.1	also take a look at what the future might bring.
0:53.3	With me here in the studio to shed some light on all this is Bruno Chancho, who is
0:58.0	ECDC's head of surveillance. Hello Bruno, glad to have you here. Hello, Inglas. Thank you for inviting me.
1:03.4	How would you describe the different phases of the COVID-19 pandemic from the beginning of
1:07.2	Apalternow? COVID-19 was one of the worst pandemic that ever occurred,
1:13.4	and it was characterized by very intense transmission in large parts of the population,
1:19.4	which lasted for three years now.
1:22.5	The first waves of the pandemic were affecting large parts of the population and having also a significant
1:30.3	impact across basically all age groups. And this was mostly driven by the fact that it was
1:38.3	a completely new virus, against which there was no population immunity.
1:44.6	And the trends of the various surges of infections was mostly driven by behavioral factors,
1:50.5	contacts between people, and it was only when measures were undertaken to reduce the contacts
1:57.8	between people that the waves started to decline.
2:01.6	The situation changed dramatically later on when a lot of people were vaccinated and also
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.