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Cancelling office parties family parties. i think there is a precautionary principle that the public understand about public health. you know, if in doubt — we dont know how bad omicron really will be, because it will take quite a few weeks before you really get mass hospitalisations, were not there yet — theyre more cautious. i think theres a lot of trouble with the nhs — ive been covering the nhs for more decades than id like to count — and it has never been in such a fragile state. an...

On that question of brexit no longer being an issue, this christmas, it doesnt really matter whether youve been naughty or nice, because omicron is coming to town, if it isnt already in your town. in the 2a hours to friday of this week, 93,000 people were infected. daily records have been broken all this week, and will probably continue to be broken, as the rate at which people are becoming infected far exceeds anything seen in the pandemic so far. boris johnson described the british governments...

Procedures have had to be put on hold over the last 21 months to deal with covid, and now the point perhaps where people were starting to feel the health service was able to get back into routine, some of it very important, some of it life—saving routine, its kind of going to be forced back into a kind of reacting to covid situation. imjust remembering a year ago now when also, you had a new variant that was the kent variant, that was discovered here in britain, was galloping through the count...

Transmissible, is actually less virulent. now, as you said, if its less virulent, but is still attacking a larger base of people, that could still create great problems for the health service. and well have to see how that pans out. were seeing it doubling in the us every couple of days, which is much faster than delta, but hospitalisations havent gone up across the board. theyve been bad in some places like michigan or new york, and weve been seeing a lot more omicron cases there, but i think w...

I think there is a precautionary principle that the public understand about public health. if in doubt, we dont know how bad omicron will be, because it will take quite a few weeks before you really get mass hospitalisations, if thats what were going to get. were not there yet. people are more cautious. i think theres a lot of trouble with the nhs. ive been covering the nhs for more decades than id like to count, and it has never been in such a fragile state. and it entered this covid crisis hav...

About public health. if in doubt, we dont know how bad omicron will be, because it will take quite a few weeks before you really get mass hospitalisations. if thats what were going to get. were not there yet. people are cautious. i think theres a lot of trouble with the nhs. ive been covering the nhs for more decades than id like to count, and it has never been in such a fragile state. and it entered this covid crisis having had a decade of its most stringent funding since it was founded in 1911...

Together, and thats what other people are doing. they are cancelling to the great hardship of restaurants, they are cancelling family parties. i think there is a precautionary principle that the public understand about public health. if in doubt, we dont know how bad omicron will be, because it will take quite a few weeks before you really get mass hospitalisations. were not there yet. i think theres a lot of trouble with the nhs. ive been covering the nhs for more decades than id like to count,...