As UK death toll passes a grim milestone, just what have we learned? Devi Sridhar
On 17 March 2020, the UK chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, said that keeping the number of UK deaths below 20,000 would be a good outcome from the pandemic. That number was on par with the number of lives that seasonal flu takes each year, the most deadly infectious disease in Britain until then. Two years in, we’ve now crossed 200,000 deaths.
What have we learned about Covid-19 in that timespan, and what old
