Economic webinar replay: The future of Covid-19 - variants vs vaccines

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Will we be able to eradicate Covid-19, or will it become endemic? If it does, what might “living with the virus” look like? How significant is the risk posed by global vaccine inequality, vaccine hesitancy, “long-Covid”, and vaccine-resistant variants? And in the longer term, is it just a matter of time until a new pandemic? If so, will we be any better prepared?

Investec Chief Economist Philip Shaw was joined by Professor Michael Barrett Barrett of the Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation at the University of Glasgow who gave his expert view on what can we expect beyond the vaccine rollout.
26 May 2021 English South Africa Business

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