Rapid Response: Lessons of Omicron, w/Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust

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🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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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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1:09.2	security forces here when your microphone arrived and asked them to scan it and look at it
1:14.0	properly before I opened it. The transmission of this Omicron variant is staggering.
1:19.9	What is the most likely scenario for the next one two three years? But then what are the other
1:27.2	possibilities? What do we need to prepare for that would really dramatically change the way we do
1:32.7	business? It's not going away. We're not going to wake up one Tuesday morning and somebody will say
1:38.4	the pandemic's over. It's not going to happen like that. It'll be a bumpy ride through 22
1:43.3	and into 23 and beyond. That's Sir Jeremy Farah, the Chief Executive at the Massive Research
1:53.4	Foundation Welcome Trust. And in recent years, the UK's preeminent scientific authority on COVID-19.
2:00.5	Farah is a doctor who spent decades in the trenches researching and fighting viruses from
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