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12th ofjuly. i want to stress from the outset this pandemic is far from over, it certainly will not be over by the 19th. as we predicted in the road map in february, we are seeing cases rise fairly rapidly, there could be 50,000 cases detected per day by the 19th, again, as we predicted, we are seeing rising hospital admissions. and we must reconcile ourselves sadly to more deaths from covid. in the circumstances we must take a careful and balanced decision. and there is only one reason why we c...

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Disease has proven to be unpredictable but what all the scientists and doctors tell us the more people get vaccinated, the safer we are today and against any possible future variants. if you are unvaccinated, get vaccinated as soon as possible. >> i hear you are making this plea, i totally understand. with the reality of one and three adults have not gotten the vaccine and recent polling suggested that those who want it have it. do you think it is possible that the u.s. is reaching a plateau whe...

Possibility of a new variant that might be resistance of the vaccine we have. how worried are you of that happening? >> well, we worry about every possibility. we plan for every scenario. this disease has proven to be unpredictable but what all the scientists and doctors tell us the more people get vaccinated, the safer we are today and against any possible future variants. if you are unvaccinated, get vaccinated as soon as possible. >> i hear you are making this plea, which i totally understand...

>> john: lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are frustrated with disease control and prevention and tsa to update the mask guidance for fully vaccinated americans on public transportation and airplanes. they want federal health and transportation officials to make that call soon. but dr. anthony fauci is insisting that the guidelines remain unchanged as a record number of americans are expected to travel this fourth of july holiday weekend. >> the cdc recommendation, if you are vaccinated, you ...

Wont because of what we know about the effectiveness of the vaccines. let me just show you real quick because this is the good news that has held up in terms of the effectiveness of the vaccines. we have the graphic. basically it shows that if youre looking at these vaccines whether its alpha, whether its the delta that were talking about, youre still getting really good protection against severe illness. just keep in mind the flu vaccine in any given year, 40%, 50%, maybe 60% effective. look at...

Can the noble lady explain why more taxpayers money has been handed out towards what has been an ineffective and inefficient company instead of supporting local public health teams to do this work? well, my lords, over80% of the budget for test and trace go towards the testing part of that programme and that has proved to be highly effective and the programme also is working to increase its partnership with local authorities, with local directors of public health and we are also reducing our rel...

The national audit office and public accountance committees in measures of competence in public expenditure. on economy, does the government regard the 22 billion budget and track and trace. good value for money. on efficiency, it is the response rate of 14% on 700 million kits an efficient use of resource? and on effectiveness, dont european calls for the quarantining of uk tourists suggest a total lack of confidence in our tracing systems here in the united kingdom? well, my lords, the noble l...

Doses but its reinforcing, stephanie, that the mrna vaccines are really performing better and above what we expected across all variants. >> how does it even work, though? do you just walk into a pharmacy, show your vaccine card and say "give me another shot, bartender"? >> it doesnt work that way unfortunately. this is difficult for farm sists and people who are not necessarily familiar with the patients circumstance. i can tell you the best first course of action is to call a physicians office...

The latest variant is pretty mild. the deaths have gone right down but we are spending billions of pounds on this while there are huge waiting lists building up in the nhs. is it not about time that this programme was wound down and the money was spent on the millions of delayed operations and procedures? my lords, we are looking at the evidence in relation to the variant and in relation to the effectiveness of the vaccine against the variant all the time. but can i reassure my noble friend that...