Britain needs to be “learning to live with” a level of the CCP virus that is similar to that of regular ‘flu, UK scientists said on Wednesday. Asked during a Science and Technology Select Committee hearing what sort of risks, including death rates, would be “acceptable” to live with, head scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence professor Angela McLean said, “Other infectious diseases that we put up with are probably a reasonably good starting point.” “So, I think it reasonable to say, let’s not have COVID winters that are any worse than bad flu winters. But bad flu winters could be quite bad,” she said. But she added that the question of acceptability wasn’t a scientific one but was one for the whole of society. Mark Woolhouse, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, added, “Whatever the answer is, it’s not zero.” “If you take the view …