The government wants us to learn to live with covid-19, but where is the learning?
The government wants us to learn to live with covid-19, but where is the learning?
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政府希望我们学会如何与 covid-19 共存，但学习在哪里？
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10.1136/bmj.o1096
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2022
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Gurdasani D
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Gurdasani D
2022年2月21日，英国首相鲍里斯·约翰逊向下议院提交了其政府应对新冠肺炎的最新战略。他说，人口免疫力水平高、疫苗接种方案成功以及抗病毒药物的可获得性意味着不再需要“限制”，因为病例与严重疾病之间的联系已“大大减弱”。1随着政策的变化，新冠病毒感染者自我隔离的法律的授权以及支持人们自我隔离的少量财政支持被取消。接触者追踪也结束了，这意味着可以确定病例的唯一方法是通过有症状的个人前来进行检测（如果他们根据非常严格的合格症状清单合格）。4月1日，尽管总理保证每个人都能获得检测，但除了“高风险环境”和抗病毒药物资格有限的人之外，大多数人的免费检测被取消。
On 21 February 2022, Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister presented his government’s latest strategy for living with covid-19 to the House of Commons. He stated that the high level of population immunity, the success of the vaccination programme, and the availability of antivirals meant that “restrictions” were no longer required, as the link between cases and severe disease had been “substantially weakened.” 1With this change in policy, the legal mandate for self-isolation for people infected with covid, and what little financial support had been available to support people to self-isolate was removed. Contact tracing also ended, which meant the only way that cases could be identified was through symptomatic individuals coming forward for testing (if they qualified based on the very restrictive eligible symptoms list). On 1 April, despite the prime minister’s assurances that everyone would have access to a test, free testing was removed for most people, except for “high-risk settings” and those on the limited list of eligibility for antivirals.