Parents may have to send their children to “coronavirus parties” to catch the disease early on if scientists can’t find a vaccine, an expert has warned.
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, chairman of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, University of Cambridge, said he remembered being sent to play with children with measles and chickenpox before vaccines for these were introduced.
Speaking at a Science Media Centre briefing, the statistician said parents may have to think about doing the same for Covid-19 if a vaccine doesn’t get discovered.
Sir David, 66, said: “I remember this pre-vaccination era, as a kid I was sent around to go and play with friends, who had measles, mumps, chickenpox...