How Britain lives with covid-19 today

Covid-19 is still making headlines. On October 3rd Britain’s official covid inquiry began a fresh set of public hearings, looking at the government’s decision-making around interventions such as . Entries released from the diary of Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser during the pandemic, criticised the “flip-flopping”, “bipolar decision-making” and “chaos” of Boris Johnson’s government. What, though, of the disease itself?