Covid: Why goal is to live with the virus - not fight it
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Vaccination and new treatments, ministers and their scientific advisers argue, will reduce the death rate and allow us to live with the virus rather than constantly trying to fight it. Why are they doing this? And is it even possible?
Eradicating viruses is nigh on impossible
Wiping Covid from the face of the Earth would, of course, be great given the death and destruction it has caused. But the only problem with that is that eradication has only been achieved with one virus before - smallpox in 1980.
Prisons in Kent may have acted as a “catalyst” at the epicentre of a major Covid-19 outbreak that has spread to London, helping push the capital into Tier 3, according to experts and jail insiders.
Four of the top five areas with the highest Covid rates in England are centred around the Kent borough of Swale and its Isle of Sheppey, where there are three prisons, one of which had one of the biggest jail outbreaks of Covid-19 this autumn.
The four sit on a commuting corridor that appears to have helped drive the Covid-19 virus into south east London, which looks set to join Kent in facing the highest level of restrictions in the run-up to Christmas.