Covid: Why goal is to live with the virus - not fight it

Covid: Why goal is to live with the virus - not fight it The government says it hopes to make Covid a manageable disease like flu.

Vaccination and new treatments, ministers and their scientific advisers argue, will reduce the death rate and allow us to live with the virus rather than constantly trying to fight it. Why are they doing this? And is it even possible? BBC News

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