A friend of my wife's who is a Virologists who works at one of the Oxford universities was telling us today that we should not expect this all to be over even by this time next year unless this vaccine works and even then they wont be able to vaccinate all of us in less than a year.
She then went on to tell us the Spanish flu from 1918 is still around but because most people are now immune from it there is little or no effect unless you have an underlying health problem. The average of 15,000 deaths a year from flu in the UK is considered normal so the extra with Covid will become the new normal.
She reckons we will be wearing face masks and having local lockdowns for at least another couple of years and the scary part is the amount of people that actually do have the virus but are showing little or no symptoms could be 5 times more that the official figures.
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