We're starting 2022 the same as we did last year, with the threat of being put back into restrictions with no notice. The longer there is a delay in delivering vaccines to impoverished and hard-to-reach areas, the longer we will have to live like this.Īsma Khan, owner of Darjeeling Express in London's Covent Garden and star of Netflix show Chef's Table It's also very clear that unless a major step is taken outside our own borders on vaccines, we're going to see these variants popping up more frequently. If we tweak them - will they still protect against Delta? We're in new territory here, so it has to be a precautionary approach.
It can be done in 100 days, which compares extremely well to other vaccines like flu, which take six months.īut it's a careful balance. There's the other question of whether we have to re-tool the vaccines for Omicron.Ī good thing about the newer, MRNA vaccines we have is they are much faster to re-target to new variants. We can't stay locked down forever - it has to end at some point.īut in 2022 people will need the facts to make their own common-sense decision, which requires clear, accurate and unbiased information. We're in a situation now where getting regular vaccines will be what allows us to go about our normal lives. However, I think it's very likely the protection offered by boosters is going to be short lived. I don't think any restrictions imposed will be quite as long as last time - because this time last year we didn't have vaccines - or boosters. The earlier you impose the restrictions the more impact they are likely to have because they are more likely to break the transmission cycle.īut the delay we're seeing will likely have the unfortunate consequence of lengthier restrictions afterwards.Ĭases will have to peak at some point, but even once they've peaked, there will still be a lot of people getting infected.
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