From Robert Peck, York, UK
The comparison of mitigation and elimination strategies for covid-19 misses an interesting alternative approach – tolerance (19 June, p 10).
This focuses on accepting covid-19’s spread and deploying practical, focused hygiene measures rather than societally disruptive interventions. It has been used in Sweden and in , where it was introduced in time for the winter wave.
It also matches the advice of Donald Henderson – the mastermind of smallpox’s eradication – and his colleagues in a on handling respiratory pandemics.
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