Covid-19 herd immunity is not going to happen. So what next?

There are dangers in continuing to make people believe it’s possible. Instead, we should be talking about how to live with the virus.

Any notion that Covid-19 was going to last for just a few months was very much misplaced in 2020. Especially after it was recognised that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was largely spread through the airborne route, all indications were that it would cause repeat bouts of waves. This is what happened in the flu epidemic of 1918 .