We must not allow Covid deaths to be ‘normalised’ | Letters

Dr Jo Fayram hopes the apathy of the British public will not last; Professors Joe Sim and Steve Tombs condemn the government's lamentable failures; Professor Patricia Deps reports on Brazil's Covid inquiry; and Margaret Farnworth highlights a super-spreader football match

Last week the government's response to Covid was criticised in a report by two Commons committees for apparently pursuing herd immunity by infection at the start of the pandemic. Continuing high Covid rates indicate that nothing has changed except the public's ability to react. According to experts (Why Britons are tolerating sky-high Covid rates - and why this may not last, 15 October), a reason for this is the normalisation" of Covid infection and deaths by the government. In reality, there is nothing normal about this normalisation".

The UK is known as plague island" in Europe. Surely it's time we realised that the use of protective measures against Covid are working well across the Channel, while the UK government's lack of action continues to lead to unnecessary illness, suffering and death. Let's hope that the experts quoted in your article are right and that the apathy of the British public will not last.
Dr Jo Fayram
Durham