World Economic Forum Webinar: The Bigger Picture on Coronavirus and Rapid Response Healthcare

World Economic Forum Webinar: The Bigger Picture on Coronavirus and Rapid Response Healthcare featuring professor Neil Ferguson.

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Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics (J-IDEA)

MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis

Interviewee: Professor Neil Ferguson, Director of MRC GIDA, J-IDEA, Imperial College London
Moderator: Stephan Mergenthaler, World Economic Forum

[brisbanemetlabs]

Great video guys. Be good to answer a few more questions in next update that I have around the virus.


1. What actually is the incubation period?
2. What actually is the transmission period? What can we use as a trigger to keep people at home? What can we use as a trigger to return people to work?
3. What percentage of people infected are so sick they are hospitalised?
4. What percentage of people infected are so sick they are bed ridden?
5. What percentage of people infected have mild symptoms ie can go about their daily lives?
6. What percentage of people are naturally immune?


Thanks for putting science in front of the hysteria,

[ryue]

Why recorded on the 18th of Feb and only released on the 25th? I must have issues about lack of instant gratification.

[pgapolltaylor]

The UK measures to control the virus appear to be based on Professor Ferguson's research and opinions. Are these opinions shared by other experts. What if he's wrong?

[AAULTEN]

Dr Bruce from the WHO today made the case that the outbreak shape doesn't fit this assumption of a large number of mild asymptomatic cases walking around. We'd be seeing more clusters appearing out of nowhere by now?

[marritjansen]

Tell us more about the behavings of this virus. It is not a flu like one. That would be good to do!

[RiDankulous]

Well I tend to listen very closely to Neil Ferguson, and that fatality ratio, the upper end is pretty scary. Even the lower end is orders of magnitude higher than influenza. In addition, the high number of cases requiring intense treatment is scary.

[ATHLETE.X]

YouTube should take the Wikipedia link off of this video.

[jpweek]

Hey guys, how hard is it to record someone without glitches? I mean I appreciate the info etc but really? isn't it harder to mess this up than to get it right?

[mruplkp]

I'm afraid of the virus, sigh, I'm don't know what to do. Don't go out if not necessarily, wearing masks may help.