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LIVE on @CrowdcastHQ shortly | @devisridhar talks to @dandavis101 about the Covid-19 pandemic http://crowdcast.io/e/hayfestival_event39">https://crowdcast.io/e/hayfest... | #ImagineTheWorld
"We assumed over the past few years that public health threats would come from the weakest links like fragile countries, war-torn areas… But what has been astonishing to watch over the past few months is how much rich countries have struggled" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"Speed is crucial to dealing with any outbreak. The quicker you can detect and aggressively contain the outbreak, the better" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"You need a clear strategy in place and political will. No matter how much you have the right capacities in place to respond, it comes down to having leaders in place at the time who are willing to do what needs to be done" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"The risk of this was clear. But we couldn’t have predicted how the metrics we use to access if countries are ready, haven’t really mapped onto reality… Some rich countries are really struggling" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"The WHO need to keep all countries at the table, to encourage them to share and collaborate. Sometimes, that means publicly praising policies while privately lobbying for change" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"What became dangerous in a few rich countries is the idea that you can treat your way through this virus if your health service is strong enough. No health service could treat the numbers this virus would affect" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"The idea that people either recover or don’t, misses the reality of the after effects of this virus" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"I wonder if the UK relied too much on modelling the virus; some models work really well on computers but don’t map well to reality… The UK tried to be too clever" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"The basis of science is peer review and questioning… The lack of transparency in the response to this has been incredibly problematic" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"It’s been uncomfortable for a lot of academics stepping into this public role of communicating around the science; but it’s so important. People need to have trust" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"The role of academics is to do research, share it, and speak truth to power" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"I’m allowed to express a public opinion on what Dominic Cummings did because it is intricately tied to the public health work that we’re trying to do" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"This is not a game at Oxford’s high table. This is real life to people" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"There are positives. We had sequencing of this virus out to the world in weeks. That has never been done before" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"We really need to give credit to all the scientists and health workers across the world that have shown up to work, at high risk to themselves, to protect people" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"You have to see outbreaks like a fire. If you leave them, they burn everything down" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"The US response has been incoherent. It’s frustrating to see such a rich country struggle… Everyone knows something has gone wrong so now they& #39;re looking to find someone to blame" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"Exiting the lockdown, we need data-driven local decision making. It has to be dealt with at a local level" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
"It& #39;s not clear to me that we& #39;re in a better position now than we were when we entered lockdown" - @devisridhar | #ImagineTheWorld
