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For their patients, saving lives and delivering vaccinations. i want to thank them and workers throughout the nhs up and down the country for the nhs up and down the country for the amazing work they had been doing throughout this pandemic, but particularly during these current challenging times. although as a country, it is a very difficult period for us, we are any stronger position than we were this time last year, thanks to the vaccination cue, testing, we have boosted more people in this co...

Joining me now is economist and author duncan weldon. plan b was not successful in the first place that was a mistake. so we did have a way forward in terms of vaccinating our population and it strikes me as a real risk because we are starting to see increases of cases and other age groups, which could mean that this epidemic starts plateauing much as we saw last autumn. ,., ., _ autumn. the government are led by the health minister _ autumn. the government are led by the health minister when _ ...

Week among primary and secondary school pupils. weve got children off across the school, i think we are up to the high 20s of children who had tested positive but, on top of that, we have staff whose children have tested positive, so they are trying to juggle childcare with their partners. its really difficult. the question, with infection rising among children, will it spread through to older age groups? there is uncertainty to among new variants, there is one under investigation in the uk at t...

Israel comparing those who are boosted with those who are fully vaccinated, a booster dose decreased infection by ten times in all age groups. similarly, in those studies, boosters resulted in a decrease in severe disease in individuals over 60 years old by 18 times. and decreased severe disease in people age 40 to 59 years old by 22 times. and people who received a booster shot had 90% lower mortality due to covid-19 than those who did not receive a booster shot. while these studies were done w...

>> reporter: tonight, a sobering assessment from the nations top health officials. >> omicron with its extraordinary unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility will ultimately find just about everybody. >> most people are going to get covid. >> more americans are sick with covid than ever before. >> what we need to do is make sure hospitals can still function, transportation, other essential services are not disrupted while this happens. >> hospitalizations, twice as many as two week...

The bodys ability to fight infection as well as severe symptoms. the country is offering the pfizer biontech booster to health care workers, immunocompromised as well as people over 60. israels daily infection rate has increased ten fold. lets get more. he elliott joins us for even more. the study is preliminary on the fourth booster, but it does seem very promising. what does this mean going forward in terms of perhaps being more readily available to other age groups here? >> reporter: isa, it ...

Campaign bobby kennedy once said, tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. bobby kennedy suffered more tragedy than most of us with the loss of his oldest brother in world war ii and the assassination of his older brother president john f. kennedy. here is some of what bobby kennedy said in the last public words that he ever spoke. >> what i think is quite clear is that we can work together in the last analysis and that what has been going on within the united states over the period of t...

Rallies, im where protesters and thousands are pouring into the military. they come from different backgrounds and age groups, but they have a unified message. this scene of revolution have a unified message. this scene of revolutio— of revolution speaks for itself. those young _ of revolution speaks for itself. those young protesters - of revolution speaks for itself. those young protesters are i of revolution speaks for itself. i those young protesters are very determined that they would lik...

Five, we heard the president asked about it. we know that dr. fauci said he hopes it will be improved in the next month or so. is that your understanding of the timeline? do we think maybe before the end of winter? >> i think probably end of winter, early spring we will finally see either pfizer or moderna vaccines being approved in younger age groups. so i certainly think that come the spring, kids under five will become eligible for vaccination as well. >> there was a study thats been out that...

Of course, the changes that are being introduced in terms of policies, what their impact will be on infections in the community. infections in england fell in all age groups except among children. since the return of schools earlier this month, cases have picked up, with increases in the last week among primary and secondary school pupils. weve got children off across the school. - i think were up to the high 20s of children whove - tested positive but, on top of that, we have staff whose childr...