Therese Raphael, Columnist

The U.K. Presses Ahead With Omicron Christmas

With each new Covid variant, will we shut down or soldier on? Britain is testing one approach.

December 6, 2021 at 4:27 AM EST

Therese Raphael is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion covering health care and British politics. Previously, she was editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe.

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At the start of this year, the U.K. government set out a “route back to normality” based around vaccines, treatments and testing. Omicron is the first “variant of concern” to appear after we have relatively high levels of vaccination, a range of Covid-19 treatments and accessible rapid antigen tests. We’re about to find out how much normality these feats of science have bought us.

With each new super-variant, will we shut down, soldier on or contend with a yo-yo of restrictions and liberations?

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