As the world moves on from the coronavirus pandemic, one of the most ardent lockdown proponents appears to have been rewarded, writes Daniel Nuccio.
The World Health Organization announced last week that Jeremy Farrar will be joining the organization as its new chief scientist in the second quarter of 2023, replacing Soumya Swaminathan, who left the agency in November.
In January 2020, Farrar tweeted, “China is setting a new standard for outbreak response and deserves all our thanks. This is an unprecedented epidemic, it needs an unprecedented response.” More recently, Farrar has been quoted by STAT as saying, “I think we’ve moved on too quickly” and “I don’t think we would go back to March 2020. ... But I do think we’re playing with fire with this level of community transmission,” suggesting he believes some restrictions are warranted even as we enter 2023.
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