COVID treatments and prevention are still improving – so the longer you can avoid it the better

Cleaner air will help protect against other airborne pathogens too, not just COVID. 220 Selfmade studio/Shutterstock

There have been enough COVID infections in the UK since March 2020 for every person to have been infected between 1.3 and two times, according to mathematical modelling.

Of course, some people will have had COVID more than twice, and some won’t have had it at all. But COVID is not a “one and done” disease, and any ideas of eliminating it are now unrealistic.