Shane Warne Covid-19 diagnosis proof we can learn to live with virus

Shane Warne’s Covid-19 diagnosis is a lesson in why vaccination works and we can learn to live with the virus, not stamp it out.

Cricket great Shane Warne is in isolation after testing positive to Covid-19.

London’s single ladies will have a couple of weeks of respite while Warnie recovers from what are thus far mild symptoms.

The overwhelming majority of people who are vaccinated against Covid, but become infected, suffer only mild symptoms or are completely asymptomatic and thankfully Warne has been jabbed.

The Spin King tested positive to Covid-19 in the lead-up to a cricket game at Lord’s featuring the London Spirit, a team he’s coached since their inception two years ago.

The club released a statement that read: “London Spirit men’s head coach Shane Warne will be absent from today’s match against Southern Brave at Lord’s. After feeling unwell this morning, Shane returned a positive lateral flow test and will isolate from the squad and support staff while he awaits PCR results. A second member of the team management is self-isolating after also returning a positive test. No players have been impacted”.

Shane Warne is in isolation after testing positive for Covid-19. Picture: Alex Coppel

The positive test comes after the Brighton playboy told the Herald Sun that vaccines would provide a pathway out of Australia’s lockdown and isolation.

“If you get jabbed we’ve more chance of learning to live with Covid,” Warne said. “For all those people that don’t believe in it, as someone who’s witnessing over here in England with 50,000 cases a day, the country is opening because the majority of people have been double vaxxed.”

England fully reopened on “Freedom Day” on July 19 with 54 per cent of the population vaccinated.

At the time there were doomsday predictions from public health officials and the dial-a-quote experts predicting that numbers in the UK would skyrocket from about 50,000 new cases a day to 200,000 per day.

But instead of new cases soaring, they have plummeted, dropping by half in the past two weeks, leaving some scientists puzzled.

Covid cases in the UK fell by about 21 per cent up to July 25, and then a further 33 per cent between July 25 and July 31, compared with the previous seven days.

The latest daily figure stands at 24,470 new cases — about 12 per cent of the alarmist predictions — despite the presence of the highly infectious Delta strain. It’s a little troubling that so many of the experts couldn’t even predict the virus’s trajectory in the two-week period after “Freedom Day”.

But more important than the daily new cases is the fact that, post-vaccines, hospitalisations and deaths have plummeted.

Even when there has been a surge in new cases, there has been no comparable increase in hospitalisations and deaths.

It’s further proof that the vaccines work and it is not only possible but imperative to learn to live with the virus rather than cause untold damage trying to eradicate it.