Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic there have been few more prominent voices than Devi Sridhar, professor of global public health at Edinburgh University and author of the forthcoming Preventable: The Politics of Pandemics and How to Stop the Next One.
In this video interview, as hospitalisations and deaths surge in the UK, we discuss what Britain needs to do to avoid another lockdown, whether the NHS has already been overwhelmed and how governments should prepare for future pandemics.
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