The Covid Files

Covid 19 has dominated all our lives for nearly two years. In this edition of The Idea, Catrin Nye takes a deep dive into the story of the pandemic – and our responses to it. In The Covid Files, she hears from anthropologist Heidi Larson, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical diseases, who has studied the reasons why so many people are reluctant to be vaccinated. Swansea University social scientist Simon Williams tells Catrin which of us are more likely to obey the Covid rules. And we hear from medical historian Michael Bresalier, also from Swansea University, who has made a study of influenza epidemics and says we have much to learn from the story of flu.

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The Idea is a Bengo Media production for BBC Radio Wales