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How did the Covid-19 pandemic change medicine?

Five years on from the first UK lockdown, what did we learn from that extraordinary time?

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鈥檚 Hospital London.

Presenter: James Gallagher
Producer: Hannah Robins

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