A professor has issued a stark warning that we're all likely to contract Covid multiple times as the UK prepares for what some are predicting to be a new wave of infections.
Hospital admissions due to Covid are on an upward trend, with recent statistics indicating a rise from 2.67 individuals per 100,000 to 3.31 per 100,000. The most recent data suggests that around one in every 25,000 people was infected with Covid as of June 26. Prof Paul Hunter, a specialist in epidemiology at the University of East Anglia, told the BBC: "We are all of us going to get repeated Covid infections from birth through to death. Generally what we've seen is that over the last three years, four years, the severity of illness associated with Covid has gone down a lot."Ultimately, it's going to become another cause of the common cold and, for many people, that's what it is now.
UKHSA epidemiologist Dr Jamie Lopez Bernal advised: "If you are showing symptoms of Covid-19 or flu, help protect others by staying at home and avoiding contact with other people, especially those who are more vulnerable."