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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Covid is Here Forever. What Does That Mean?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Politics, Government, Society & Culture, News

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

With Covid cases on the rise in Britain, how worried should we be about its resurgence? Tom Chivers, science writer for the i, joins Ros Taylor to discuss the latest uptick in coronavirus cases, what we know about the new variants and the role Covid could play in our lives in the years ahead. “Vaccines are significant when protecting against severe disease, but not reinfection.” “The virus doesn’t have to change very much to avoid your antibody immunity.” “We’ll still get the virus periodically, but our body will become better at fighting it off.” “We’ve only had two winters of covid so far, by 2030 it may well become part of the normal cycle.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Ros Taylor. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Assistant Producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. The Bunker is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

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Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello and welcome to the bunker I'm Ros Taylor. We're two and a half years into the pandemic and the latest stats show that around one in 17 Britain's had COVID last week. Will this virus ever go away?

1:21.2

Joining me today to talk COVID is Tom Chivers, science writer at the I paper.

1:25.8

Welcome to the bunker, Tom.

1:27.1

No, thank you, thank you for having me.

1:29.1

I was thinking of the people I know who haven't had COVID and I can count them on one hand now.

1:35.0

Nearly everyone has some immunity to the virus now through infection or vaccination or both.

1:42.0

And yet we're still catching it again and again why is that

1:44.9

fundamentally your body builds up immunity through various things got antibodies

1:49.2

which remember a small bit of the virus or whatever that is attacking you and they remember it really well and they stop you from getting infected the virus doesn't have to change very much to be able to avoid antibody immunity to some extent

2:00.8

So as new variants of it come along, the antibody immunity wanes

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