The head of the Wellcome Trust warns that vaccines and research must be shared equitably among all nations
The world has entered a year which will be far less predictable in its outcomes than the one that has just ended. That is the stark warning from Jeremy Farrar, head of the Wellcome Trust and one of the world’s leading experts on infectious diseases.
Farrar argues that even though 2020 was utterly transformed by lockdowns, travel bans, social distancing measures and the deaths of more than 2 million people from Covid-19 across the globe, such outcomes were predictable once details of the disease were revealed. Crucially, that is not going to be the case for 2021.
