'Spike: The Virus Vs The People - The Inside Story'

GSF December 2021 webinar: Sir Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust
Co-author of ‘Spike: The Virus Vs The People - The Inside Story’, speaks to Professor Sir David Omand (Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department, King's College London, former UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office and Director of GCHQ) about his book and what led him to write it, the story of the pandemic to date, the importance of 'radical transparency' to build public trust, the lessons from 2020 on needing to improve how scientific advice feeds into the broader policy context, the threat currently posed by the Omicron variant, how to avoid lockdowns - 'the failure of public health and public policy-making' - through early action, the urgency of global vaccine equity and much more.