Covid Gb, the doctors’ appeal to Johnson: “Stop the reopening”

122 doctors and scientists in a letter published in the Lancet ask British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to review his decision to lift the anti-Covid restrictions from next July 19. It is “a dangerous, illogical and unethical experiment”, write the doctors, who underline how the reopening coinciding with the spread of the Delta variant can “provide fertile ground for the emergence of new variants resistant to vaccines” . Read also After Health Minister Sajid Javid spoke of the risk of 100,000 new cases of Covid-19 per day this summer, doctors warned that the infection is now affecting young people ” disproportionately ”, to whom the vaccine was not offered. “In light of these serious risks, and given that vaccination offers the prospect of rapidly achieving the same goal of population immunity without incurring risk, we consider any strategy that tolerates a high degree to be unethical and illogical. level of infections “, reads the letter. Among the signatories also Sir David King, former chief scientific adviser to the government, and Dr. Chaand Nagpaul, president of the British Medical Association.