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SUMMARY:The Covid Lockdowns: Challenges\, Dilemmas and Trade-offs - Sunetr
 a Gupta (University of Oxford)\, Hugh Montgomery (UCL)\, Toby Green ( KCL)
 \, Mark Honigsbaum (City St George's\, University of London)\, Chair: Gün
 eş Taylor (Francis Crick Institute)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251119T180000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251119T193000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The Covid Inquiry has officially become the most expensive in 
 British legal history – £192 million and counting\, according to Octobe
 r’s financial statements.\n\nBut for exactly £192 million less\, you ca
 n join us for a serious discussion with leading experts in history\, epide
 miology\, and medicine on what Britain got right – and wrong – in its 
 lockdown response to Covid-19.\n\nExpect a rigorous\, engaging exchange sp
 anning science\, medicine\, history\, and economics\, followed by a Q&A an
 d drinks reception – with attendees not even required to stand two metre
 s apart.\n\nOur interdisciplinary panel of experts will explore key questi
 ons:\n\n* Could more lives have been saved through earlier and longer lock
 downs?\n* What have been the global ramifications of the pandemic and pand
 emic response?\n* Could the Great Barrington Declaration’s ‘focused pr
 otection’ strategy be applied to future pandemic preparedness?\n* What l
 essons can history teach us about balancing public health\, personal freed
 om and societal impact?\n\nThis event is hosted by the Committee for Acade
 mic Freedom. It forms part of CAF’s Open to Argument series\, which prom
 otes lively\, good-faith discussion on the topics that are often hardest t
 o discuss openly within Britain’s universities. The event will be filmed
  and made available online.\n\n*Speakers*\n* *Sunetra Gupta* is Professor 
 of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. She specialises i
 n infectious disease modelling and population-level dynamics\, and has pub
 lished widely on the spread and control of epidemics. She is also a signat
 ory of the Great Barrington Declaration.\n\n* *Hugh Montgomery* is Chair o
 f Intensive Care Medicine at University College London (UCL). He has first
 -hand experience managing Covid-19 patients in intensive care and has cont
 ributed to major research on respiratory failure\, critical-care outcomes\
 , and pandemic preparedness.\n\n* *Toby Green* is a historian at King’s 
 College London with expertise in African history\, pandemics\, and the soc
 ial and economic impacts of disease. He is co-author of _The Covid Consens
 us: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor — A Critique from the L
 eft_ (2023).\n\n* *Mark Honigsbaum* is a medical historian and journalist 
 specialising in pandemics\, public health\, and the history of medicine. H
 e is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at City St George’s\, University of
  London\, and author of _The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagi
 on from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19_ (2019).\n\n*Chair*\n* *Güneş Taylor
 * is a molecular biologist at the Francis Crick Institute\, specialising i
 n women’s health and fertility. She regularly discusses future technolog
 ies and sex differences with leading figures such as Richard Dawkins\, Yuv
 al Noah Harari\, Simon Baron-Cohen\, and Robert Winston.\nSpeakers:\nSunet
 ra Gupta (University of Oxford)\, Hugh Montgomery (UCL)\, Toby Green ( KCL
 )\, Mark Honigsbaum (City St George's\, University of London)\, Chair: Gü
 neş Taylor (Francis Crick Institute)
LOCATION:Worcester College (Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre)\, Walton Street OX1
  2HB
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/612f7181-24c7-4de9-868b-b860ef776c9b/
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