PANDA Casts
Videos
The Ugly Truth About The Covid-19 Lockdowns: Time to Reopen Society
PANDA’s co-founder, Nick Hudson, was the keynote speaker at the March 2020 inaugural BizNews Investment Conference in South Africa. His talk negates the fear and gives clear reasons why the only thing to fear is fear itself in the story of the Covid-19 pandemic response.
PandaCast | A Conversation with Sanjeev Sabhlok
PANDA’s Nick Hudson in conversation with Sanjeev Sabhlok, moral philosopher and economist based in Melbourne, Australia. After many years in civil service in both India and Australia, Sanjeev left the civil service to protest the Victorian government’s pandemic policies.
PandaCast | A Conversation with John Church
PANDA’s Peter Castleden in conversation with John Church who developed a simple IFR model to examine the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide.
PandaCast | A Conversation with Dr Knut Wittkowski
Dr Knut Wittkowski is a German epidemiologist and former Head of Biostatics, Epidemiology and Research Design at Rockefeller University.
PANDA Predictions: What We Got Right and Wrong
Peter Castleden and Piet Streicher of PANDA unpack the modelling and predictions that PANDA made in 2020 with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic. This retrospective look at what PANDA got right and wrong in the predictions also provides insight into how the models are made.
The Spirit of Science | Jay Bhattacharya
Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Economics and Medicine at Stanford University, in conversation with Nick Hudson.
PandaCast | A Conversation with Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg
Dr Wodarg is a German physician, health expert and activist, in conversation with PANDA’s Nick Hudson. Words of wisdom from a man who has seen this movie before, and journeyed to the inside of the whale.
PandaCast | A Conversation with Randy Hillier
Nick Hudson in conversation with independent Canadian MP, Randy Hillier.
The Spirit of Science | Clare Craig
PANDA’s Dr Clare Craig from the UK in conversation with Nick Hudson.
Clare is a diagnostic pathologist who has looked into the UK’s Covid testing strategy in great detail. In her own words she is a lover of data, digital pathology and AI, sceptical but optimistic.
Covid & Kids – a talk by PANDA’s Peter Castleden
PANDA Peter Castleden was invited to speak about the risks Covid poses to our kids weighed up against the implications of lockdown and the measures imposed.
Peter talked to a group of concerned teachers and parents from Cape Town, unpacking some of the evidence around the risk of Covid to children, masks on kids and potential for the virus spread.
Podcasts
PandaCast | The Docs Discuss
Nick Hudson speaks to doctors Jonathan Witt and David Carman about the medical response to Covid-19 and what it’s like in the hospitals.
PandaCast | Law for the Layperson
PANDA’s lawyer, Shayne Krige, in discussion with Ian McGorian and Nick Hudson about the division of power in South Africa and the laws used to implement and extend the lockdown.
PandaCast | Gompertz Curves & D-Models
A technical discussion of Gompertz Curves & D-Models between PANDAs Nick Hudson, Piet Streicher and Miguel Lacerda. One for the data-heads!
PandaCast | The PPE of Covid-19
A conversation between Nick Hudson, Russell Lamberti and Peter Castleden about the Politics, Philosophy and Economics at play during the Covid-19 crisis in South Africa.