Johnny Mars Bar
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Someone needs to tell our GPs, who are still hiding in their comfy home offices 18 months on while their patients die from undiagnosed illnesses at the end of a FaceTime call.COVID could resemble the common by next spring - expert
The country is "over the worst" and COVID could resemble the common cold by spring next year, a leading expert claims.
Professor Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, said this is down to people's immunity to the virus being boosted by jabs and exposure.
He believes things "should be fine" once winter has passed, adding there was continued exposure to the virus even in people who are vaccinated.
Sir John told Times Radio: "If you look at the trajectory we're on, we're a lot better off than we were six months ago.
"So the pressure on the NHS is largely abated. If you look at the deaths from COVID, they tend to be very elderly people, and it's not entirely clear it was COVID that caused all those deaths.
"So I think we're over the worst of it now."
He said his view is COVID will be similar to coronaviruses which cause the common cold "by next spring".
It's "pretty important that we don't panic about where we are now", he said, as severe infections and deaths from COVID remain "very low".
Hashtag bang your pots and pans for the NHS etc.