How Britain lives with covid-19 today
Cases are rising again, but the public have other worries
Covid-19 is still making headlines. On October 3rd Britain’s official covid inquiry began a fresh set of public hearings, looking at the government’s decision-making around interventions such as lockdowns. Entries released from the diary of Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser during the pandemic, criticised the “flip-flopping”, “bipolar decision-making” and “chaos” of Boris Johnson’s government. What, though, of the disease itself?
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This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Still with us”
Britain October 7th 2023
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