As covid restrictions are relaxed in the UK, we look at how these new policies could play out
A woman wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus, London, EnglandHello, and welcome to this week’s Health Check, the weekly newsletter that gives you the health and fitness news you can really trust. To receive this free, weekly newsletter in your inbox,The big news in the UK is the easing of covid-19 restrictions, including England stopping the advice to work from home where possible and this week ending mandatory face masks in indoor public spaces.
To get one thing out of the way, some believe covid-19 will naturally evolve to be less virulent. But this is wrong – pathogens evolve to be more transmissible. The coronavirus doesn’t “care” if it kills people or not because it generally spreads long before it kills. “Diseases don’t always evolve to become less virulent,” says Paul Hunter at the University of East Anglia. “Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. And you can’t predict that.
The delta variant, which surged in mid-2021, seems to have been intrinsically more virulent than the original version of the coronavirus, although it took less of a toll in many countries because there was some population immunity. Omicron seems to be both intrinsicallyOne encouraging sign is that another coronavirus called OC43 seems to have evolved to become much less virulent.
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