LONDON (UK) – England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has announced that even with a successful vaccine rollout, Britain is likely to see a surge in coronavirus cases at some point and would also be not able to bring down the number of deaths to zero
Whitty said that caution in re-opening the economy would affect the size and the timing of a resurgence, but that vaccines would not be able to prevent all deaths from COVID.
“All the modelling suggests there is going to be a further surge and that will find the people who either have not been vaccinated, or where the vaccine has not worked, and some of them will end up in hospital and sadly, some of them will go on to die,” Whitty told lawmakers.
“The ratio of cases to deaths will go right down as a result of vaccination, but not right down to zero, unfortunately.”
