Covid will become a virus that we learn to live with as we already do with flu

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イギリスの新規陽性者は2万7千人、人口比で日本の40倍弱。が、ジョンソン首相はほぼ全ての規制を撤廃し、普通の生活に戻ることを宣言。「このウイルスと一緒に暮らすことを学ぶとき」と述べた。ワクチン接種が進み、陽性者が増えても死者が10人前後、普通の感染症として受け入れることを決断したのだ。 pic.twitter.com/7K7bml4slN

— 青山 まさゆき (@my_fc1) July 5, 2021

Johnson reiterated that Covid will become a virus that we learn to live with as we already do with flu, conceding that a reopening would likely lead to more deaths.

“It has grown ever clearer that these vaccines are indeed successful with the majority of those admitted to hospital unvaccinated.”

LANGFITT: Yeah. So this is his argument. He says, yes, cases are rising. And, in fact, they're averaging about 27,000 a day most recently, and they're going to double. They're doubling every nine days. But he and scientists are arguing that the U.K.'s heavy vaccination rate - half of the United Kingdom's population is already completely vaccinated - has largely, but they say not completely, broken the link between the disease and hospitalizations and deaths. And so here are some figures I think we're thinking about. Even with so many cases right now, only 1,900 people are in the hospital, compared to about 35,000 nationally in the winter. And deaths are averaging about 18 a day versus a peak - one day in January over 1,800 deaths.

風邪やインフルエンザ程度になれば、普通にもどしてよい。

制限を解除したらどうなるか、”先進国”イギリスの様子を注視したい。

その間、日本はワクチン接種普及、また、変異種対応のワクチン開発に猛進したいところである。