As we move to ‘living with the virus’, it’s time to consider the balance of benefits and harms of asking people to quarantine
, mainly in younger people; the latest ONS infection survey shows 16 to 24-year-olds have the highest infection rates, about 10 times more than in the over-50s. The link from infection to hospitalisations and deaths may have been weakened, but millions of contacts in quarantine implies major economic disruption and challenges to providing healthcare, let alone ruined holidays.
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