Are We Just Learning to Live With the Virus?

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There's a lot of discussion of this is something we just have to learn to live with now. The health secretary says they do fully expect by august to be up to a hundred thousand cases a day, and we do expect there to be hospitalizations going up. And i think it's because there has been such an amount of alarm raised by scientific experts and public health experts that the government is realizing that actually, we need to tread much more carefully.

The UK government has announced that virtually all COVID restrictions will be removed in England on Monday 18th July. This will do away with social distancing requirements, allow businesses to re-open to full capacity and remove legal mask mandates. This decision comes, however, amidst soaring infections rates in the country, driven by the delta variant.

Now scientists are questioning the wisdom of this policy and asking whether the combination of high transmission and a partially vaccinated population could provide the perfect breeding ground for vaccine-resistant variants - a possibility which could have devastating global consequences.

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