Christmas Lectures 2021: The Invisible Enemy - with Jonathan Van Tam
In the first lecture of the 2021 Christmas Lectures, Jonathan Van Tam dives into the micro-world of viruses, revealing how these invisible invaders can infect our bodies, and how a revolution in testing may transform medicine forever with the help of immunologist Katie Ewer and virologist Ravi Gupta. Jonathan Van Tam is an epidemiologist and acted as an independent advisor to the UK Government as one of two Deputy Chief Medical Officers.
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