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Mar 2025
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How did the Covid-19 pandemic change med...

Bbc Radio 4
About this episode

Five years on from the first Covid lockdown in the UK, we consider how the pandemic changed medicine.

We're joined by Dr Emma Wall, academic consultant in Infectious Diseases at University College London Hospital who also runs a long covid clinic, Professor Katrina Pollock, Associate Professor in Vaccinology at the Oxford Vaccine Group and Jon Otter Director for Infection Prevention and Control at Guy’s Hospital London.

Presenter: James Gallagher Producer: Hannah Robins

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