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A professor at Imperial College London claims that there may never be a coronavirus vaccine and that governments will have to respond to future outbreaks of the pathogen with regional or national blockades.
Dr. David Nabarro, a special envoy from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Covid-19, said there is no “absolute assumption” that “a vaccine will appear.”
The global health professor argued that the “high hopes” are “dashed” because scientists are “dealing with biological systems, we are not dealing with mechanical systems.”
He added that movement restrictions “may apply to parts of a country, or may even apply to an entire country” in the face of another outbreak.
Dr. David Nabarro, special envoy from the World Health Organization, said there is no “absolute assumption” that “a vaccine will appear” (pictured, in Geneva, January 2017)
The professor said the blocks “may apply to parts of a country, or may even apply to an entire country” in a future outbreak (pictured, an Aylesbury store selling face masks, May 1, 2020)
Dr. Nabarro’s intervention comes as the British public increasingly turns to scientists under great pressure to develop a vaccine to end the pandemic.
Already a team from Oxford University is competing to test a vaccine made from a chimpanzee virus. In the United States, scientists are testing a different antidote.
Ministers have noted that quarantine of the elderly would only occur if a vaccine were developed. This is estimated to take at least a year.
Dr. Nabarro, who warned that people can expect to wear face masks in the future, told CNN:“There are some viruses that we still don’t have vaccines against.
“We cannot assume that a vaccine will appear at all, or if it appears, if it will pass all the efficacy and safety tests.”
Dr. Nabarro, of Imperial College London, argued that the “high hopes” are “frustrated” because scientists are “dealing with biological systems, not mechanical systems” (pictured in Geneva, May 2017)
Dr. Nabarro’s intervention comes as the British public increasingly turns to scientists under great pressure to develop a vaccine to end the pandemic (pictured, a car passing a coronavirus testing center in Leicester City King Power Stadium, May 2, 2020)
‘You have high hopes, and then your hopes are dashed.
‘We are dealing with biological systems, we are not dealing with mechanical systems. It really depends a lot on how the body reacts. ‘
Dr. Nabarro suggested that the blockades, many of which are in the process of being gradually lifted by governments, could be implemented at any time.
“From time to time there will be outbreaks,” he said. “Movement will be restricted and that can apply to parts of a country, or it can even apply to an entire country.”
Michael Gove told a news conference on the coronavirus about the government’s so-called “whack-a-mole” policy, which is to gradually ease the blockade.
The restrictions can be quickly reapplied in light of future outbreaks.
The UK has announced 315 new coronavirus deaths today, totaling 28,446.
A new interactive map shows the coronavirus postal code lottery and reveals extensive areas in Wales, the south west and east of England that have recorded zero deaths
Imperial College London encouraged the government to pursue a blockade after it projected that half a million people could die if no action was taken.
It has led to the layoff of millions of workers and the closure of large sectors of the economy, primarily in food, retail, hospitality, travel, and manufacturing.
Cabinet ministers are quick to say that the blockade has saved lives. So far, no concrete evidence has been produced to support the claim.
Meanwhile, economists have estimated that the policy could cost Britain £ 2.4 trillion per day. Others say the economic crisis is the most severe in 100 years.
Economists have estimated that the policy could cost Britain £ 2.4 trillion per day (pictured, a deserted street in Oxford during week six of closure, May 2, 2020)
A Bank of England official recently warned that the UK economy is facing an extreme contraction, which may not have been felt for centuries.
The spiraling crisis has led to the repeated intervention of Lord Sumption, one of Britain’s most distinguished historians and jurists.
In an article for the Mail on Sunday, Lord Sumption called the continued confinement of the elderly a “cruel mockery of basic human values.”
He criticized the “blind panic of the Government after the delivery of the statistical projections of Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London”.
A Bank of England official warned that the UK economy is facing the most extreme crisis in centuries (pictured, a woman walking her dog on Oxford Street, May 1, 2020)
Lord Sumption also took on the task of the ‘money question’. “People criticize attempts to measure Covid-19 mortality against the economic cost of reducing it,” he writes. But this is also rhetoric, and hypocritical rhetoric.
‘Money is not just for plutocrats. You and I and the editor of The Guardian and the bus driver for bus number 9 and the Archbishop of Canterbury and the supermarket cashier value and depend on money.
‘Not only in the sense that he pays our wages or pensions. Hundreds of thousands of companies are going under. Millions are moving from jobs to universal credit. A thriving economy, the kind we are now throwing away, is the source of our security and the foundation of our children’s future.
‘We would do well not to make fun of that. Poverty also kills. And when it does not kill, mutilates, mentally, physically and socially.
