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On Monday 19th July, the UK will officially end the majority of legislated Covid restrictions for millions following the PM's recent announcement.
However, there are increasing concerns from medical professionals and other groups, including MPs, that this is being done too fast, too early and more concerning, it is believed that the government are looking at pushing a mass infection policy to force herd immunity within the UK.
The prominent Covid infection in the UK is currently the Delta+ variant, a mutation of the India 'Delta' variant. In the past few days, another new strain has been identified in the UK, the Lambda variant, which has appeared in more than two dozen countries, with a heavy concentration in South America. This new strain is even more transmittable than the latest Delta+ variant identified. At this point, as is the case with other variants of this disease, it’s too early to know whether the Lambda strain could be more deadly than others, or whether it’s resistant to our vaccines or treatments.
There were almost 194,000 new cases of Covid-19 reported in England last week, which is a rise of 35% above the week before. At this time, 52% of the UK population have been fully vaccinated. Maybe another 20% have some immunity from one dose of vaccine. If this level of population immunity was enough to contain the pandemic alongside public health measures, cases would be falling. They are not.
Dr Susan Hopkins, the head of PHE (Public Health England), has estimated more than 200,000 cases a day within six weeks’ time. Even the health secretary, Sajid Javid, admits there are likely to be more than 100,000 cases a day, which would be higher than the highest recorded day we had back in January. This could mean that another 2 million British people will be infected before cases return to the low levels we saw in early May.
More than 100 scientists set out why allowing mass infection this summer is a terrible idea in a letter to The Lancet (an independent, international weekly general medical journal) last week. Dr Mike Ryan, the executive director of the WHO health emergencies programme, called such a strategy “moral emptiness and epidemiological stupidity”. Healthcare experts for the People’s Covid Inquiry called it a “very dangerous experiment”. The BMA (British Medical Association), Association of Directors of Public Health, Sage and NHS leaders have all highlighted the danger of allowing mass infection.
But our government has not listened to the medical profession. They are intent on moving forward with their own agenda.
Yes, we are all sick and tired of restrictions and lockdowns. However, until we work towards eradicating the virus to a level that is manageable, and stop the transmission of the disease by allowing the movement of people across other countries, states and cities, we are NOT going to see an end of this pandemic any time soon and at some point, the mutations WILL develop to the point that the current vaccines will no longer help us and we will all be back to 'square one'...........
However, there are increasing concerns from medical professionals and other groups, including MPs, that this is being done too fast, too early and more concerning, it is believed that the government are looking at pushing a mass infection policy to force herd immunity within the UK.
The prominent Covid infection in the UK is currently the Delta+ variant, a mutation of the India 'Delta' variant. In the past few days, another new strain has been identified in the UK, the Lambda variant, which has appeared in more than two dozen countries, with a heavy concentration in South America. This new strain is even more transmittable than the latest Delta+ variant identified. At this point, as is the case with other variants of this disease, it’s too early to know whether the Lambda strain could be more deadly than others, or whether it’s resistant to our vaccines or treatments.
There were almost 194,000 new cases of Covid-19 reported in England last week, which is a rise of 35% above the week before. At this time, 52% of the UK population have been fully vaccinated. Maybe another 20% have some immunity from one dose of vaccine. If this level of population immunity was enough to contain the pandemic alongside public health measures, cases would be falling. They are not.
Dr Susan Hopkins, the head of PHE (Public Health England), has estimated more than 200,000 cases a day within six weeks’ time. Even the health secretary, Sajid Javid, admits there are likely to be more than 100,000 cases a day, which would be higher than the highest recorded day we had back in January. This could mean that another 2 million British people will be infected before cases return to the low levels we saw in early May.
More than 100 scientists set out why allowing mass infection this summer is a terrible idea in a letter to The Lancet (an independent, international weekly general medical journal) last week. Dr Mike Ryan, the executive director of the WHO health emergencies programme, called such a strategy “moral emptiness and epidemiological stupidity”. Healthcare experts for the People’s Covid Inquiry called it a “very dangerous experiment”. The BMA (British Medical Association), Association of Directors of Public Health, Sage and NHS leaders have all highlighted the danger of allowing mass infection.
But our government has not listened to the medical profession. They are intent on moving forward with their own agenda.
Yes, we are all sick and tired of restrictions and lockdowns. However, until we work towards eradicating the virus to a level that is manageable, and stop the transmission of the disease by allowing the movement of people across other countries, states and cities, we are NOT going to see an end of this pandemic any time soon and at some point, the mutations WILL develop to the point that the current vaccines will no longer help us and we will all be back to 'square one'...........
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