A more sensible comment on Covid24 Jan 2022 12:55
Professor Peter Openshaw, a member of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group, says it’s not certain Covid will become less severe over time.
The professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College London tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme that after many discussions the group has “no way of concluding that viruses have to become less severe over time.”
He says the next Covid variant “could be more severe” adding "there's no rule about this."
Openshaw also says reinfections - where somebody tests positive again after a previous bout of Covid - are increasing and warns “we still have to take this disease very, very seriously".