EDITORIAL Vol 133 No 1520: 21 August 2020

Time for a sea change in our COVID-19 management | OPEN ACCESS

Des Gorman, Murray Horn

New Zealanders are confronted with a new reality: to learn to “live with COVID-19” until such time as we have herd immunity, hopefully by way of a vaccination in the next 18 months or so. This always was the reality, although 100 days with no community transmission tempted us to think it wasn’t true.