Society may have live with children and younger people catching coronavirus in the future, an expert has said.
Dr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, said that if the vaccine does not prevent Covid-19 transmission, the virus may need to be allowed to circulate among younger people.
Asked if it was likely the entire population would need to be vaccinated, she told the Commons Science and Technology Committee: “We may need to accept, if the vaccine doesn’t prevent transmission, that we’re going to protect the people who are really vulnerable and going to die and have serious disease, but we allow the disease to circulate in younger people where it’s not causing much harm.
“That may be the situation we go to, like we are with things like flu, that we accept that a lot of people get flu but we protect those who are most vulnerable.
“That may be the outcome, I’m hoping it will be a bit better than that.”
