COVID-19

Covid-19: 'We don't know how long lasting any immunity would be'

Professor George Lomonossoff says the problem with Covid-19 is that “we don’t know how long lasting any immunity would be”, drawing to attention the possibility that herd immunity may not be a useful tactic, telling Mike Graham that the term “tends to only be used for vaccination programmes” and that “it doesn’t always get passed on to subsequent generations.”

Professor Lomonossoff also said that as universities are undertaking their own track and trace system “you’re getting a lot more monitoring of people, particularly students at universities, which can sort of skew the data a bit”.