‘Crude wake-up call’: Covid could be the crisis we let go to waste

More than two years after the first Covid briefing, a world-class virologist shares his views on the ups, downs and what’s to come

29 June 2022 - 19:55

On a hot, sticky day at the end of January 2020, more than 300 people crowded into a lecture theatre at Tygerberg Hospital while Wolfgang Preiser, a professor of virology, adjusted his microphone...

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