UK needs to realise we are not done with Covid-19, public health expert warns

The UK needs to be told “the job is not done” when it comes to the Covid pandemic according to a leading public health expert who called on the Government to capitalise on recent scientific breakthroughs. Dr Doug Brown, chief executive of the British Society of Immunology, said there is a danger of falling into pre-pandemic routine of taking up to 10 years to bring new vaccines to market and that it will be a “travesty” if all the research momentum built up over the last two years is lost. Dr Brown told i: “We’ve really transformed the way we carry out research over the last two years since March 2020, targeting Covid-19 and it has been an unprecedented, incredible effort, particularly in the UK where we were able to build on the country already being a world leader in immunology and vaccinology.