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Covid will last FOREVER and we need to live with it like flu: Top scientists, senior ministers and Boris admit virus is never going away and public will have to get used to deaths... so what IS an acceptable number of daily victims?
Independent scientists seeking to manage expectations before restrictions are lifted told MailOnline that achieving zero Covid deaths was 'impossible' and that the focus should be to bring them down to levels comparable with flu - which kills roughly 17,000 people in England annually and up to 50,000 in a bad year (pictured left, a graph showing how many people die of different conditions). The comments were echoed by Michael Gove (bottom right) who said that while ministers need to do 'everything we can to protect people', it was important for the public to 'accept' that there would continue to be Covid deaths when the country unlocks on July 19. Boris Johnson and England's chief expert advisers Professor Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance (pictured together last night top right) have all repeated the line that we will 'have to learn to live with Covid' in the past 24 hours, in what seems to be a concerted effort to take emphasis away from the daily death numbers. There has been fierce debate about what level of Covid deaths would be 'tolerable' when Britain emerges from the shutdown, but one of the Government's top scientists said it was 'quite possible' there could be hundreds each day post lockdown.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9685393/Covid-FOREVER-need-live-like-flu-Freedom-Day.html
Independent scientists seeking to manage expectations before restrictions are lifted told MailOnline that achieving zero Covid deaths was 'impossible' and that the focus should be to bring them down to levels comparable with flu - which kills roughly 17,000 people in England annually and up to 50,000 in a bad year (pictured left, a graph showing how many people die of different conditions). The comments were echoed by Michael Gove (bottom right) who said that while ministers need to do 'everything we can to protect people', it was important for the public to 'accept' that there would continue to be Covid deaths when the country unlocks on July 19. Boris Johnson and England's chief expert advisers Professor Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance (pictured together last night top right) have all repeated the line that we will 'have to learn to live with Covid' in the past 24 hours, in what seems to be a concerted effort to take emphasis away from the daily death numbers. There has been fierce debate about what level of Covid deaths would be 'tolerable' when Britain emerges from the shutdown, but one of the Government's top scientists said it was 'quite possible' there could be hundreds each day post lockdown.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9685393/Covid-FOREVER-need-live-like-flu-Freedom-Day.html