Live From Munich: Dr. Jeremy Farrar: “We Must Not Be Caught Vulnerable Again”

Two years ago, Dr. Jeremy Farrar joined Steve for the first iteration of Live From Munich, when the Covid-19 Pandemic was just emerging. Today, for the third installment of this Live From Munich mini-series, he returns to discuss this murky transition into the next stage of the pandemic. Dr. Farrar predicts that “political interest will wane from the pandemic because other events take over.” Politics are turning towards an exhausted, frustrated, even sometimes violent public. “We all feel fed up with this pandemic. But our emotional state doesn't determine the outcome of the pandemic.” We must be prepared for all scenarios, not just the ones we prefer. Dr. Farrar takes a lesson from the Munich Security Conference: “The truth is that the security community does this all the time. They think of a central scenario that is the most likely and they put most of their planning around it, but they do not ignore the other scenarios.” Dr. Jeremy Farrar is the Director of Wellcome Trust.

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Live From Munich: Dr. Jeremy Farrar: “We Must Not Be Caught Vulnerable Again” is an episode from Pandemic Planet by Center for Strategic and International Studies.

This episode is 14:47 long.

This episode was published on Mar 8, 2022.

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