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They might still be infectious then yes we will relieve some of the pressure we are seeing on the economy and that is not to be underestimated, but that will be short lived because the risk we take is that we will accelerate the spread of the virus and that pressure on the economy will increase in the longer term. we need to get this right. why do i say we are still taking a few more days? because we have a very rapidly rising number of cases right now which is a reason to do this but also a rea...

A quarter of public sector workers could soon be off work because of covid. rising case numbers have led to large numbers of employees self—isolating — with absences particularly affecting the nhs and the transport industry. our business correspondent katie prescott has more details. cancelled trains, delayed deliveries, closed restaurants and shut—up shops. staff shortages because of the spread of omicron are a real worry in the new year as people return to work after the christmas break....

Encouraging people to have their booster vaccine. im sorry to say this, but the overwhelming majority of people who are currently ending up in intensive care in our hospitals, are people who are not boosted. just as the booster campaign has had to be ramped up to deal with rising case numbers, so too has testing. lateral flow tests have never been a more important part of plans to keep covid under control. we are being told to do them before going out to see friends and family. and if you add to...

Early to say for sure. >> if youre talking about, would it be preferable to have omicron be totally pervasive and be relatively low degree of severity, yes, obviously, that would be preferable, but its dangerous business to be able to rely on what you perceive as a lower degree of severity. >> reporter: doctors fear even if omicron is milder than delta, the huge spike in case numbers, particularly among the unvaccinated, could still strain hospitals in some places like cleveland, ohio. >> we are...

Ministers, amid warnings that a quarter of public sector workers could soon be off work because of covid. rising case numbers have led to large numbers of employees self—isolating — with absences particularly affecting the nhs and the transport industry. our business correspondent katie prescott has more details. cancelled trains, delayed deliveries, closed restaurants and shut up shop. staff shortages because of the threat of omicron are a real worry in the new year as people return to work...

Its not quite as steep a rise as the caseload, maybe. as for the country as a whole, well new look at some of the leading states that have been hit with omicron. the hospitalization charts in these first-hit states are starting to look a little scary too. here for example is the daily cases in new jersey. again, this is cases. and you see the huge spike on the right side of the graph there. its beyond any record the state has ever seen before in terms of new cases. now look at the hospitalizatio...

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The question with this wave is not just how much people will be infected, it is mammoth numbers, a large portion of those infections being ones in which people dont get to terribly sick. the real consequence he is saying, the real question consequences whether our health care system can hold especially after two years of being a bloodshed by the cyrus. that is why -- right now in particular to watch the hospitalization rates not just the case numbers. when you start doing that at the largest lev...

How the case numbers arent really a significant as hospitalizations because whats important is how sick people are getting. so hospitalizations and deaths much more important numbers than cases. and theres still over a thousand deaths a day from covid. over the weekend the cdc director dr. walensky was asked how many people are in the hospital for covid versus how many people are in the hospital with covid. meaning theyre there for some other reason. and its also true that they have covid. heres...

Reached a new level in terms of infecttive tie in, terms of contagiousness. its now in the category of measles, the most highly transmissible virus or one of the most highly transmissible viruses known to mankind. weve been vaccinating against measles for a long time. we need to do the same thing with covid 2 and covid-19. heres what they are preparing for now. schools reopening here in houston and across texas next tuesday. that will happen in many cities across the country and in states like t...