Restrictions on freedom “must be an absolute last resort” and the UK must look to “live alongside” COVID-19 in 2022, Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said. The UK government, which is responsible for public health policies in England, said on Dec. 27 that no more restrictions would be imposed at least until after the New Year. Writing in the Daily Mail on Saturday, Javid said the decision that saw England welcoming the New Year “with some of the least restrictive measures in Europe” was because the number of people in intensive care units (ICU) remained stable and did not follow “the trajectory we saw this time last year during the Alpha wave,” despite soaring case numbers. The UK on Friday reported 189,846 new cases of COVID-19—the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus—almost three times the peak case number last January (68,053). Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, a Cambridge University statistician …