What have we learnt from Sars?
A discussion from 2019 in Hong Kong, talking to some of the key players in the Sars epidemic; Professor David Heymann on what this can teach us in the war against Covid-19.
Claudia Hammond revisits a discussion she recorded in the summer of 2019 in Hong Kong, talking to some of the key players in the Sars epidemic in 2003. She hears how the novel virus was first spotted and how the medical and global health community rallied round in the fight to conquer it.
The similarities with the situation today are startling, but have we learnt the key lessons from how SARS was handled? Claudia also speaks to Professor David Heymann at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to hear what the Hong Kong effort can teach us in the war against Covid-19.
Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Producer: Alexandra Feachem
(Image: A security guard in Hong Kong during the SARS epidemic in 2003. Photo credit: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images.)
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