51 - Saloni Dattani - Tackling the Pandemic

Saloni’s article on the UK policy is here:
https://unherd.com/2020/03/the-scientific-case-against-herd-immunity/

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Further References

More on the UK policy:
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf

More resources on the Coronavirus:
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public
https://nextstrain.org/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

Why the Corona Virus Has Been So Successful:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/03/biography-new-coronavirus/608338/

For some of the best information on the virus, follow epidemiologist @NAChristakis on Twitter or Facebook (Nicholas Christakis).

To write an open letter about your experiences with Coronavirus or create a daily journal:
https://letter.wiki/OpenLetters/conversations.

If you would like to start a correspondence with someone on this or any other topic and don’t have a suitable interlocutor, contact [email protected] or tweet to me or @JacksonAEdwards.

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Timestamps

2:03 The situation in Hong Kong
4:40 My personal situation
11:21 Herd immunity
14:04 Psychological impacts of quarantine & social distancing
19:06 More on herd immunity and secondary effects of the epidemic
30:33 The reproduction number
32:18 The second wave
32:57 Seasonality
38:01 Does having had the virus confer immunity?
40:46 Treatments
46:33 Reasons to be optimistic
49:05 Developing a vaccine
51:24 How did the virus evolve?
54:46 How many young people are liable to suffer from serious complications or die?
57:15 Why are we testing so few people?
58:32 Panic buying
1:02:40 What we can do
1:14:35 Why the numbers sound so small
1:20:08 Open letters about your experiences with social isolation and a call for expertise