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PProfessor Mark Woolhouse, an infectious disease expert at the University of Edinburgh who sits on the government’s advisory body, has said that there is a “middle ground” between draconian restrictions and openness to society and the economy.
“I think there is a middle ground, where you could have a little bit of both,” he said. “The way to find that middle ground is not simply by focusing on suppressing the virus in the entire population, but by focusing on those who need protection the most.
“We know who these people are, the elderly, the fragile, the vulnerable, those with a set of comorbidities.
“They are at a vastly greater risk of contracting this virus and if we can protect them, that gives us leeway to relax measures elsewhere for the rest of us.
Professor Woolhouse also said that the government’s current strategy against the coronavirus amounts to “waiting another six months.”
“Most of the people I have talked to about vaccine development think that we may have a vaccine in six months, but it is unlikely that we will be able to implement it on a large scale at that time,” he told The Andrew Marr Show. .
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