Pandemic-related lockdowns are no longer practical, according to the UK’s largest charitable foundation focused on health research, which has called for moving toward treating COVID-19 “like the common cold.”
“I don’t think it can mean going back into regular lockdowns, because it is just not economically viable. We don’t do that for the flu, we don’t do that for the common cold,” Nick Moakes, chief investment officer of Wellcome Trust, told The Telegraph.