Hi folks! In this episode, I speak with Dr Colin Brown (@cstewartb on twitter) an infectious diseases expert who splits his time between working for Public Health England in Glocal Health management and as an honorary clinician at the Royal Free Hospital. He is perfectly placed to contextualise the handling of this pandemic both in the UK and around the world in light of previous epidemics and explain in more detail the purpose of modelling, the reality behind flattening the curve vs herd immunity,  the evidence of mutational strains, and what our 'new normal' will look like.