新冠疫情在全球不断升级,英国政府却在当下宣布进入“延缓”阶段,进而提出“群体免疫”的应付思路。其近乎“放纵不管”的消极态度引发国际舆论哗然。据英国卫生当局最新数据显示,截至当地时间15日早9点,英国累计确诊1372例新冠病例,死亡35例。紧迫的疫情形势让英国女王伊丽莎白二世决定暂时迁离白金汉宫,前往温莎城堡躲避。
英国首相鲍里斯·约翰逊于12日宣布改变方案,不再测试轻症和疑似病人,而将重点放在的表现较重的病人身上,并建议有的表现的人不再拨打急救电话,在家自我隔离。
对此,英国首席科学顾问帕特里克·瓦朗斯进一步进行讲解,即大约60%的英国人将需要感染新冠肺炎病毒,使全社会获得群体免疫。也就是说,4000万人需要感染上新冠肺炎病毒,才能达到理想目的。
然而,该设想遭到公众及国际社会的质疑,激起世界范围内有关范围学者的讨论。近500名专家发布联名信,实名反对该防疫手段,呼吁立刻拓展更强有力的隔离手段,不然或有无数生命遭到威胁。
Over 350 UK and 30 International scientists, across all fields, have signed a public request for the government to take stronger action to prevent the spread of the virus.
世卫组织发言人玛格丽特·哈里斯同意BBC采访时也强调,现在对新冠肺炎病毒的认识还有不少不足,“群体免疫”的设想充满不确定性,“大家可以讨论理论,但现在大家面临的是一个现实的状况,大家需要考虑采取行动”。
WHO spokesperson Dr Margaret Harris also told BBC radio: "We don't know enough about the science of the virus, it hasn't been in our population for long enough for us to know what it does in immunological terms.
现在,已有超越25万人在英国议会请愿网站上签字,呼吁英国政府采取采取愈加积极的手段来限制职员流动,阻止疫情蔓延。
面对重压,英国政府已经悄然改变了口风。
谈到“群体免疫”引发的种种争议,卫生大臣马修·汉考克强调,“群体免疫并不是大家的目的或政策,它只不过一个科学定义。大家的目的是保护生命,打败这一病毒”。
The UK government appears to have shifted its policy for fighting COVID|19.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said that 'herd immunity' is not an aim, days after it was suggested by Sir Patrick Vallance, Chief Scientific adviser to the government that the UK's chosen approach to tackling coronavirus hoped to create a "herd immunity to the disease."
Hancock said in the UK's Sunday Telegraph: "Herd immunity is not a part of it . That is a scientific concept, not a goal or a strategy. Our goal is to protect life from this virus, our strategy is to protect the most vulnerable and protect the NHS through contain, delay, research and mitigate."



