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>> dana: a recent report investigating the origins of the coronavirus doesens of scientists were linked to researchers or even fundraisers for that wuhan lab. david spunt is live in washington with details. hi, david. >> this big revelation comes a few weeks after the intelligence community released a report to the white house that came out to the public that said essential will i we dont really know the origins of covid-19, frustrating for many people across the globe. in february 2020, 27 scie...

We need a full response here. its not just a vaccinate add approach. weve got to get testing and contact tracing going. it does look like the approach in the last eight months has been its vaccines or bust. now theres a new effort to enhance testing. where was this the first eight or nine months? it does feel as though everything was focused on the vaccine. and i get it, its the simplest way out, but weve got a mask divide in the country has gotten worse. >> youre right there has to be a multipr...

The tensions are just so high and people are just so polarized on this? >> clearly up in the northeast, you are doing much better. the vaccination rates are successful. youve got essentially all of the adults, all of the adolescents vaccinated. and i dont know that will immunize you against the epidemic entirely. youll still have some issues as you head into the fall and winter months, but it wont be anything like what we will have in the rest of the country. right now, theyre such a high percen...

Through but we have been loss—making, basically taking a hit with cash and government support, 5% vat, has been essential, the furlough scheme but they are all coming to an end and we are still playing catch up and i dont think the government realises how long this is taking for us to bounce back and we are sleepwalking from one crisis into another with the hgv drivers, the government does not listen. we are having to say stuff months ago and it is not until it develops into a crisis that they...

This is the time for absolute leadership. and the president is absolutely right to really put a much firmer stake in the ground. mandates are going to be essential, and im very, very pleased if he is going to get support from the private sector in addition to the authority that he has in the public sector as being the president of the united states, but it is inevitable. we have to have the mandates, because all of the other things that we are doing have failed so far to achieve the goals that w...

Essential to protect vulnerable patients. our health correspondent jim reed is here. jim, theres a six week consultation on whether to go ahead with this? there is, ben. it is likely to affect over 1 there is, ben. it is likely to affect over1 million nhs front line staff in england, so these staff who work with patients day in and day out. around 12% of nhs workers in trusts have not had a second doused of the covid vaccine. in some areas, it could be as high as 22%. there is a big disparity in...

Future, in other words potentially closing down some of these venues that will be asked to use vaccine passports, that is the issue, that is the balance as far as the scottish government has decided to look at it, they have decided that speed is the way to cope with the issue, as opposed to waiting to see how the policy develops elsewhere, although they do say it has been used successfully in other european countries. , ., , used successfully in other european countries. , . , ., ., countries. j...

Perhaps the most significant of all is climate change. he comes from a major coal producing state and joe manchin made clear he wont go nearly as far as many want to go to combat global warming to impose clean energy standard or impose tax on carbon admission and that raises the question about how far democrats can ultimately go because as you know, brianna, every vote is essential in the united states senate. they need all 50 democrats in line. he is the one who is digging in the most. number o...

Getting to a zero covid status. it is about mitigating the spread and i think as the district were doing everything that we can. you mentioned masking but the tests is essential because it could identify the asymptomatic cases and asymptomatic outbreaks. with the weekly testing, i believe that we could keep schools open and keep employees and students safe. but i think as the district and as a country, we need to talk about the vaccine being mandated for employees and students once communities a...

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