New COVID variants have changed the game, and vaccines will not be enough. We need global 'maximum suppression'
- Written by Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, UCL
At the end of 2020, there was a strong hope that high levels of vaccination would see humanity finally gain the upper hand over SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. In an ideal scenario, the virus would then be contained at very low levels without further societal disruption or significant numbers of deaths.
But since then,...