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Why we shouldn’t fear a ‘fourth wave’ of Covid

Covid is meeting a wall of immunity

7 August 2021

9:00 AM

7 August 2021

9:00 AM

A few weeks ago, as the government was preparing for a great reopening on 21 June, I wrote a cover story for The Spectator with some bad news: a third wave was coming, I argued, and it could be even bigger than the second.

It jarred with the mood. Covid cases were falling and a great many people desperately wanted this to be the end of it.

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