Covid should be treated as an endemic virus similar to flu, and ministers should end mass-vaccination after the booster campaign, the former chairman of the UK’s vaccine taskforce has said. This could help create vaccines for vulnerable people specific to Covid variants, he said, adding: “We now need to manage disease, not virus spread. 83-year-old Rachel Gershom and other senior citizens dance at a vaccination party in Netanya, Israel, before they receive a fourth dose of vaccine. “A fourth dose or second booster of the existing vaccine probably isn’t going to achieve very much. Now that fear has gone it has removed some of the drive to take up the vaccine.

Source: The Guardian January 09, 2022 19:20 UTC