Pressure is increasing for the uk government to revise its relaxation of covid restrictions from 23 27 of december. Talks with the devolved administrations will resume on wednesday to see if a four nation approach can be agreed. Its thought changes to the measures already announced are unlikely, but that there may be strengthened guidance to discourage excessive social mixing. Two of the uks leading medical journals published a joint editorial for the first time, calling for the government to stop any household mixing. They describe the current plan to allow three households to gather at christmas as a rash decision that will cost lives. Here are their editors. The real striking, stark truth of the matter is that our Health System is not going to manage if we allow the current trend to continue on top of the superspreader event that will be this five days of christmas. We are currently on course for around about 19,000 covid inpatients in english hospitals. At the start of the second w