Epidemic

As the world wrestles with trying to end the Covid-19, professor David Hayman is on the hunt for our next pandemic foe. An infectious disease ecologist at Massey University, Hayman has travelled the… Audio

Denmark - home to about six million people - has lifted all its Covid-19 restrictions. Epidemiologist Lone Simonsen talks to Jim about how the situation is likely to play out in Denmark over the… Audio

A motion to disestablish the Epidemic Response Committee was debated and passed by MPs this week.  Audio

The Government will have to make up for time lost due to Covid-19 as it works on legislation this week  Audio

Disestablishing the Epidemic Response Committee has been added to the Government's to do list so The House takes a look back at how and why the Committee was set up. Audio

Parliament's second week in the debating chamber at alert level 3 includes the return of the General debate and two Covid-19 related bills. Video, Audio

MPs are due back in the debating chamber after more than a month of lockdown but there are some changes to comply with alert level 3 including fewer MPs and time for debates Video, Audio

Gary McLean is a professor in molecular immunology at London Metropolitan University who specialises in infectious diseases, immunology and antibody engineering. He joins the show to look at the big… Audio

Professor Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, says there is no clear evidence that Covid-19 is causing massive loss of life, despite evidence to the contrary in places like… Audio

Gary McLean is a professor in molecular immunology who specialises in infectious diseases, immunology and antibody engineering. He looks at the big Covid-19 talking points in a week that saw global… Audio

Gary McLean is a professor in molecular immunology at London Metropolitan University who specialises in infectious diseases, immunology and antibody engineering. He joins us on the spread of Covid-19… Audio

New Zealander Gary McLean, a professor of molecular immunology at London Metropolitan University, says we shouldn't discount the idea of a second wave of Covid-19 hitting. Professor McLean joins the… Audio

Kiwi Gary McLean is a Professor of Immunology at the London Metropolitan University. He says the news on the Covid-19 front continues to be hugely concerning. In fact, he says this outbreak is… Audio

Otago University epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker talks about the measles epidemic in Samoa originating in New Zealand. Audio

Can you imagine if 20 per cent of the people you know suddenly died? How would you feel if the people in charge blocked doctors from helping them? For Samoans in 1918 this wasn't a hypothetical… Audio