Saloni’s article on the UK policy is here:

https://unherd.com/2020/03/the-scientific-case-against-herd-immunity/

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Further References

More on the UK policy:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf

More resources on the Coronavirus:

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public

https://nextstrain.org/

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

Why the Corona Virus Has Been So Successful:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/03/biography-new-coronavirus/608338/

For some of the best information on the virus, follow epidemiologist @NAChristakis on Twitter or Facebook (Nicholas Christakis).

To write an open letter about your experiences with Coronavirus or create a daily journal:

https://letter.wiki/OpenLetters/conversations.

If you would like to start a correspondence with someone on this or any other topic and don’t have a suitable interlocutor, contact [email protected] or tweet to me or @JacksonAEdwards.

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Timestamps

2:03 The situation in Hong Kong

4:40 My personal situation

11:21 Herd immunity

14:04 Psychological impacts of quarantine & social distancing

19:06 More on herd immunity and secondary effects of the epidemic

30:33 The reproduction number

32:18 The second wave

32:57 Seasonality

38:01 Does having had the virus confer immunity?

40:46 Treatments

46:33 Reasons to be optimistic

49:05 Developing a vaccine

51:24 How did the virus evolve?

54:46 How many young people are liable to suffer from serious complications or die?

57:15 Why are we testing so few people?

58:32 Panic buying

1:02:40 What we can do

1:14:35 Why the numbers sound so small

1:20:08 Open letters about your experiences with social isolation and a call for expertise