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Podcast: Remembering Together
Episode: Pandemic Unmasked: Are We Prepared For The Next Pandemic?
Description: Pandemic Unmasked is a short series of podcasts by the British Embassy The Hague reflecting on the Covid-19 pandemic that started almost a year ago. This episode host Andy Clark talks to the Dutch virologist Professor Marion Koopmans, Head of the Department of Viroscience at the Rotterdam Erasmus MC and Professor Carole Mundell, International Science Envoy at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. They discuss lessons learned and what would be needed to avoid, or at least be better prepared for, another pandemic. Would it be possible to develop early warning systems? Why is genomic sequencing to track viruses e...