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and professor neil ferguson and professorjohn edmonds, who both advised on stage will submit fergusonat he imagines there could be a transition quite quickly into something where coronavirus is something that the country begins to live with. he says this will be something that happens quite quickly, although there will be some rising cases in september when people return to school and to work, going back into the offices, but i think the caveat in his interview with the times is where he says there could still be shutdowns if there are new variants, al vesely this country has been taken by surprise a few times by variants and we've actually have had to change rules pre—quickly to respond to that actually, this country. neil ferguson is definitely giving a hopeful story here, but he just gives an little but of caution there and professorjohn edmonds, he is saying he thinks the nhs and find things quite awkward but ultimately they would be able to cope and that's always been an indicator, has it not, the number of hospitalisations through covid? it is a good story! find hospitalisations