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"The world will divide in two": Professor Sam McConkey on living with Covid-19 in the years ahead The Irish Times World View Podcast

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Professor Sam McConkey has been one of the most prominent communicators of the science behind the pandemic response in Ireland. Here he talks to Irish Times deputy editor Deirdre Veldon about how we will live with Covid-19 in the months and years ahead, affecting how our businesses work, making smaller school class sizes necessary, and creating a new global divide between nations on top of the virus and those where it remains widespread.

Professor McConkey is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine at the RCSI.

Professor Sam McConkey has been one of the most prominent communicators of the science behind the pandemic response in Ireland. Here he talks to Irish Times deputy editor Deirdre Veldon about how we will live with Covid-19 in the months and years ahead, affecting how our businesses work, making smaller school class sizes necessary, and creating a new global divide between nations on top of the virus and those where it remains widespread.

Professor McConkey is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine at the RCSI.

17 min

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