Couple of interesting Youtube videos. Prof Chris Whitty talking to the Royal Society of Medicine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W6-aq8KhNQ
Dr John Campbell giving his usual daily roundup of recent coronavirus news which includes references to Chris Whitty's talk.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxIIjQqSgkA
CV deaths in the UK are now running at around 50 a day. That is a very similar figure to the deaths from flu in a normal winter - so around 7 - 8,000 per year. That doesn't make the newspapers. There was a mini flu epidemic during the winter of 2017/2018 when 25,000 died in the UK - that didn't make the newspapers either.
Perhaps we are approaching the point where 50 deaths a day during the winter is acceptable and barely worthy of comment? The weather is (should be) getting warmer, evenings are lighter. We can get outside, get some sun (vitamin D) on our bodies. that will keep Covid at bay.
Will we have a jab every Autumn, a combined Covid and flu jab? Just learn to live with it?
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