This is irresponsible & negligent- we haven't learned anything from past mistakes. Letting a big wave of infection flow through the UK would mean hundreds of thousands of people with long COVID, and further virus adaptation & spread that may threaten vaccine effectiveness. https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1360181880319078403
We can't count on being able to tweak vaccines to keep on top of virus adaptation- adaptation has happened much faster than we imagined- and is continuing in a way we can't predict. This is the same as the 'focused protection' & herd immunity strategy promoted by the GBD.
We've literally seen the impact of this strategy- which has given rise to more transmissible variants, and more recently variants with mutations that can potentially reduce vaccine effectiveness. We have exported these variants to much of Europe, with impact for pandemic response
When are we going to learn, and do better?
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