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Vaccine ‘unlikely to eradicate Covid’, Sir Patrick Vallance tells MPs – Telegraph.co.uk
Government’s chief scientific adviser believes disease likely to become endemic in Britain and will be more like annual flu
A vaccine is unlikely to eradicate coronavirus, with the disease instead likely to become endemic in Britain, Sir Patrick Vallance has warned.
The Government’s chief scientific adviser said the “notion of eliminating Covid is not right”, adding that people would have to learn to live with the virus.
Speaking at the joint committee on national security strategy, Sir Patrick said that even if a vaccine was available by the spring it would not wipe out the virus entirely.
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