From ‘herd immunity’ to today, Covid minimisers are still sabotaging our pandemic progress | William Hanage

Every time you hear someone say it's time to live with the virus', remember that doesn't mean doing nothing about it

So, is that it? After wave upon wave of infections, the combination of vaccination and Omicron's comparatively mild (though still serious) properties has led the UK to declare the pandemic, essentially, over.

After two lockdowns, a huge burden on healthcare and at last an extremely prompt and effective vaccination campaign, the UK has still registered more than 160,000 lives lost to the pandemic, roughly half of them in the Alpha wave.