Coronavirus: Scientists say UK virus strategy is 'risking lives'
Rough estimates indicate that herd immunity to Covid-19 would be reached when approximately 60% of the population has had the disease.
"It is almost impossible to predict what that will mean in terms of human costs, but we are conservatively looking at tens of thousands of deaths, and possibly at hundreds of thousands of deaths," he said. Prof van Schaik noted that the UK is the only country in Europe that is following what he described as its"laissez-faire attitude to the virus"., more than 200 behavioural scientists have questioned the government's argument that starting tougher measures too soon would lead to people not sticking to them just at the point that the epidemic is at its height.
The scientists said"radical behaviour change" could have a"much better" effect and could"save very large numbers of lives".
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