In October, I wrote an article outlining why I didn’t think a second wave was inevitable. We are now experiencing a wave that is worse than the one in spring 2020, which was predicted by many including the @acmedsci in their Challenging Winter Report 1/4 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/29/england-second-wave-government-covid

Lockdowns are a little like intensive care units - they buy time to undertake interventions to change the underlying disease process but are not themselves a cure. In the case of the COVID pandemic, as many have pointed out, we need to change the fundamentals to make progress 2/4

We need:
1) Effective test, trace & isolate system that people are able to comply with
2) Rapid & widespread vaccination
3) Treatments that work

After a year, we have still not made the progress needed toward these & until we do, we don’t have a roadmap out of the pandemic 3/4

Science has delivered therapies and vaccines that work. What we need now is the logistics in place to tackle the other aspects ASAP. It is possible, other nations are already doing it. Further waves/lockdowns are not inevitable, we just need to get it done, abs urgently! 4/4