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Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Not paywalled for me but that may be my script blocker kicking in. From your link:

More from the DT article:

With hard times ahead, Johnson must stay resolute that this is the end of the Covid emergency, and the start of the Covid recovery. In particular, No 10 must hold its nerve against the Zero Covid campaign, which is organising against it. Scientists have already started to brief against the Government, branding the new Health Secretary Sajid Javid as “frightening”. and accusing ministers of “building ‘variant’ factories” in the population.

As deaths remain low, they seem keen to shift their emphasis from scary graphs to warnings about mysterious long-term complications. Long Covid – a risk acknowledged by Chris Whitty in yesterday’s press conference – looks set to shift from a marginal story to a major talking point. Epidemiologists are taking to the airwaves with various stomach-churning scenarios – that Covid could turn out to be like mumps, with rare but life-threatening risks for children; that the infected may become more susceptible to diseases further down the line (as it proved with Parkinson’s among survivors of the Spanish flu).