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Covid: Why goal is to live with the virus - not fight it . 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 eradicati...

Lockdown-sceptic MPs desperate for focus to shift to learning to live with Covid Original aim of measures was to protect vulnerable and NHS, but case numbers now seem to be an increasingly influential condition  3 February 2021 • 7:47pm At the current rate, all adults in the UK could be vaccinated before the end of May. But will that mean a full end to lockdown? When Sir Graham Brady and fellow Tory MPs appeared on a video conferencing call with a select group of scientists last week, a key ...

Angela Rayners magical thinking on vaccine prioritisation is a disgrace The country cannot afford to have senior politicians misleading the public over the relative risks of the virus 28 January 2021 • 7:37pm The Labour Party has a deputy leader problem – she is clearly not right for the job. I say this as someone who thinks Labour has had a good pandemic. Under Sir Keir Starmer, the party has provided solid opposition. Had the caution it advocated in the autumn been heeded, the nation woul...

BBC News image copyrightGetty Images But with the most vulnerable to be offered vaccination by mid-February, what is standing in the way? The NHS will still be at risk Lockdown looks to be having an impact on infection levels with the number of new cases starting to fall. But there are only tentative signs this has filtered through to a slowing of new admissions to hospital. And even if they start coming down, the overall number of patients in hospital will remain high as patients are being dis...

Letters Mandatory face coverings | Vaccines | Black Death in Norway | Three kings, more or less | Guardian supporters Sculptures of the three magi wearing face masks and shields at Pozzo della Cava in Orvieto, Italy. ‘There’s no evidence that there were three kings or magi,’ writes Andrew Saint. Photograph: Gianluigi Basilietti/EPA Sculptures of the three magi wearing face masks and shields at Pozzo della Cava in Orvieto, Italy. ‘There’s no evidence that there were thre...

Why are ministers causing irrational panic about the mutant Covid strain? The Government remains terrified that the NHS can’t cope, yet has failed to put it on an emergency footing 22 December 2020 • 9:30pm When the country is told by its political masters that an out-of-control mutant virus is rampaging across the land like something in a Fifties B-movie, it is hard not to be seriously alarmed. When, as a result, we are cut off from the rest of the world and the nation’s Christmas plans ...