Prof Stephen Reicher: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- expert in social psychology at the University of St Andrews
- Quoted on
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“People talk about the 'super flu', which is not a medical term and in a sense it's more an excuse than an explanation. Respiratory diseases happen every year, and the lessons we had from Covid about how to deal with them in the longer term just haven't been taken onboard.”
Where Prof Stephen Reicher has been quoted
- NHS must learn lessons of Covid to overcome winter flu, say expertstheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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