Had a longish chat to @markaustintv earlier on @SkyNews on this latest Omicron Covid wave. Covered: this wave, seasonality, "living with it", long covid, vaccines and my frustration at this cycle of repeated waves...
First off - yes we're in a wave 1/6
Secondly, Covid spreads perfectly well in summer. Yes, it tends to be worse in winter but it certaily has had no problems causing large waves in summer (whether northern or southern hemisphere).
2/6
Thirdly, the way we are trying to "live with covid" just... isn't really working out very well is it?
and yes we can do something about it. (clip is ventilation but also sick pay, supported isolation, addressing inequalities, global vax). 3/6
Fourthly, each wave is leaving more people with long covid and some are badly enough affected that they can't work - whether for weeks, months or years.
That's not sustainable. 4/6
Fifthly, we need more than vaccine tweaks - we need more research into even better, longer lasting, vaccines that are better at preventing infection.
In the meantime, we should stil take up all the vaccine doses we are offered. 5/6
Finally, this wave will pass but another one will come. Candidate variants are already being tracked. Quite likely there will be another wave in early autumn... we need to stop acting like each wave is the last. 6/6
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