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Scots could face 'miserable winter' with further lockdowns

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Government, has said that children and elderly people will be vulnerable to endemic viruses at the end of the year. Another health expert and Government advisor warned that there may be the need for winter lockdowns if hospitals become “overwhelmed” at some point.

On Sunday, Professor Semple told Times Radio: “I suspect we’ll have a pretty miserable winter because the other respiratory viruses are going to come back and bite us quite hard.

But after that, I think we’ll be seeing business as normal next year.“There’s a sting in the tail after every pandemic, because social distancing will have reduced exposure, particularly of pregnant women and their newborn babies, they will have not been exposed to the usual endemic respiratory.

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