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Is a clinical epidemiologist at queen mary university of london. welcome and thank you forjoining us. do you think that an october firebreak lockdown would be a good idea? the department for education has said it is not being planned but that could change. i has said it is not being planned but that could change.— has said it is not being planned but that could change. i dont know what has been planned _ that could change. i dont know what has been planned but _ that could change. i dont know ...

It is one thing to say that we have to open the schools. i wish we would say that by saying we have to open our schools safely. i think that that is the thing that im most concerned about. and if we find that this 160,000 cases per day becomes the base, and it shoots up, then were in for another wave, were in for another -- another tough fall and winter. >> and then of course flu gets in the mix there as well, which complicates everything. and dr. anthony fauci says dramatic data coming from isr...

California. he is also an epidemiologist and a philanthropist. thank you, doctor, for being with us and for all that you do. >> thank you, rosemary. >> so doctor, the big question everyones asking is, when will this pandemic end? vaccinations are available to all americans, and yet some refuse to get the shot. europeans will see their vaccines much later. but now they have higher vaccination rates and are reclaiming their lives. when will this end in america, if 20% or more refuse to get vaccina...

Variant drives a surge in cases. according to u.s. health and human services, georgia now has its highest number of hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic. local officials report the state has now surpassed 20,000 total deaths. the latest federal data shows nearly one in every three icu beds in the u.s. is occupied by a covid patient. earlier i spoke with epidemiologist dr. larry brilliant and i asked him what the rise in cases tell him about what we can expect as the school year pro...

Grounds alone arent marginal, but they are, on the positive side. ministers have got to look at the whole range of potential benefits and harms and one of the things that has been extraordinarily disruptive to young people has been a disruption index schooling. we are seeing in scotland at a time when the school is the work is back to normal, cases rising fast, so there is a significant this benefits for children being off school for a significant matter of time with a coronavirus infection.— ...

Diseases specialist, epidemiologist, but there are people that look at the house in the broadest sense. that obviously includes things like education, and a social activity generally. so vaccination has the potential to have an impact on those as well, and so what the ministers across the four nations have asked is that the chief medical officers of the four nations work together with experts who can look at that and take a broader view of the potential benefits and harms of vaccination to the 1...

Spain, belgium and canada. so the assessment now goes to chris whitty and the other chief medical officers. but for now, parents and children will have to wait. lets talk now to a clinical epidemiologist from queen barry university, london, and a member of thejcvi. doctor, good to speak to you again. what you make of this decision by thejc you again. what you make of this decision by the jc vi effectively to say, this is our sense of it, but actually we think its over to you chief medical office...

To education and society? and so, we could have one announcement. and there is some political frustration about the delays. so, for example, the uk now has a lower percentage of its population immunised than denmark, spain, belgium and canada. so, the assessment now goes to chris whitty and the other chief medical officers, but for now, parents and children will have to wait. dr deepti gurdasani is a clinical epidemiologist at queen mary university of london. she strongly disagrees with thejcvi ...

Proof thats actually true. >> to the contrary. its been shown not to be effective. its good to see you, my friend. joining me now epidemiologist, i want to get your opinion on this. in this case the fda tweeted you are not a horse, but it hasnt convinced a lot of folks. >> unfortunately, this is not a new trend. we saw this back in the early days of the hiv pandemic where people in south africa, for example, were told beet root and potatoes would cure them of hiv and hiv did not cause aids. du...

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