Sign up here for GlobalData's free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your industry needs to know.“Around 9 or 10 March, it become obvious that [the novel] coronavirus was going to be a major challenge worldwide.
First of all, [because] there are no known treatments. Secondly, it was going to have major consequences for health, and, thirdly, this was going to have major health consequences to the healthcare system,” says University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Population Health professor of medicine and epidemiology Martin Landray.
This escalating pandemic situation pushed Landray and his University of Oxford colleague professor of emerging infectious diseases and global health Peter Horby to quickly to set-up a.