Professor Graham Madley talks to Newsnight about the need to generate herd immunity, the need to change social behaviours and protect society’s most vulnerable members from coronavirus.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling Graham Medley believes the impact of the coronavirus pandemic will be “remembered in the same kind of way” as the London Blitz during World War Two.
Talking to UK Editor Katie Razzall, Professor Medley says people need to “change their behaviour to reduce transmission before deaths get to be very big” but that is ” going to be a challenge” as “the biggest danger” with coronavirus is when people only changing their behaviour when it is too late.
Professor Graham Medley is Academic Chair of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling.
SPI-M gives expert advice to the Department of Health and Social Care and wider UK government on scientific matters relating to the UK’s response to an influenza pandemic (or other emerging human infectious disease threats). The advice is based on infectious disease modelling and epidemiology.
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