Webinar Transcript: Professor Justin Stebbing On COVID Omicron
- By Bilal Hafeez
This is an edited transcript of our webinar with Professor Justin Stebbing, which took place on 1 December 2021.
Bilal Hafeez (00:00):
Welcome everyone to this webinar by Macro Hive. We’re very pleased to have Professor Justin Stebbing to give us his take on this latest virus variant. Just for your background, Professor Justin Stebbing, he’s a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College. He’s written extensively. He’s published numerous articles in academic journals on a range of different topics. And he has actually published some work on using AI to find drugs, to treat COVID 19 and perhaps most important of all, he’s been a very close follower of the ups and down of the COVID pandemic since it began first at the beginning of 2020. And he’s also recently published a book, which we’ll also talk about where he documents the spread of the virus over the course of 2020. I think for me, Justin’s one of the best sources for synthesising and channeling kind of our understanding of the pandemic at each stage of its journey so far.
And before we go into the particular topic, I just wanted to just give some background to the other people on this call. So there’s myself, I’m the CEO and head of research at my Macro Hive. We also have Dominique Dwor-Frecaut, who’s our senior researcher at Macro Hive, who focuses on US economics and strategy. And she’s been following the spread of COVID from a kind of case, death, count, and understanding the implications of COVID. If we have time, we’ll get her take on the implications of it all, as well.
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