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Some had resolved to get protected for the new year and went for boosters today. this is a third shot, booster, want to make sure that i got all the protection we can get meeting friends and family and living a normal life. the main priority right now is to keep everyone safe, keep spreading the awareness, please get vaccinated, its so important. whether it is the first, second dose or booster, and to look out for each other and protect one another. the health secretary in england is hoping vacc...

Doing this pandemic becomes the case rates. he suggested the modelling suggested to him that the peak would be another ten to 1a days away, and on that basis he couldnt fit see coming down from the current uncertain level to restrictions for at least another two weeks, that means another two weeks of closures for nightclubs. another two weeks of the rule of six being in place and hospitality, bars and restaurants, and may be at least another two weeks of major sporting events being held behind c...

Wanted _ were chuntering at the same time. i wanted to— were chuntering at the same time. i wanted to calm it down, i want is to use language that is appropriate to this chamber. so, please, make sure that we_ this chamber. so, please, make sure that we treat — this chamber. so, please, make sure that we treat each other with the respect _ that we treat each other with the respect that i expect from all of you going — respect that i expect from all of you going forward. i respect that i ex...

Is absolutely clear, those restrictions work. so, i am absolutely clear in my own mind that if you prevent people from having contact with one another, that will restrict the spread of the disease, yes. of course, i am clear about that. but the point that i am making is we cannot settle questions of whether non—pharmaceutical interventions are worth the costs that they incur by having a political discussion and that is why i have put forward a programme of four reforms, one to the public healt...

This today, but if you look to what they said on the 1st of january, they said on the 1st of january, they said on the 1st of january, they said their modelling suggested that between ten and 30% of people are still infectious on day six, so i suppose those are the factors to your point about a very small business, they need to be conscious of that. ., , ., business, they need to be conscious of that. . , ., , ., of that. that is right, and if you look at the _ of that. that is right, and if you...

Customerfacing businesses, you have only got so many people to fill the hours in the day. so the self isolation aspect of this is a real issue for us, and if it can be done safely and its a big if, we are basically looking at the us cdc, the center for disease control, which did conclude that five days was the right time period, and that is the same science, the same variant, the same sort of workforce, so we would like the uk authorities, the chief medical and scientific advisers, to take a loo...

Testing regime and the self—isolation rules. because cases of coronavirus are so high in the community at the moment, we no longer need routinely to take a follow—up pcr test after a positive lateral flow test result. 0ur wales correspondent, hywel griffith, has been telling us the latest update has thrown up some suprises. perhaps what many people were expecting was a suggestion that there be no changes for at least two weeks while many thought that we might be approaching the peak of the 0...

Is scotland in a better position now than we were previously, and are we in a better position than we would have been without these restrictions? now, its always difficult in any country to absolutely prove cause and effect in the handling of a virus. but if you look at what we were predicting through our modelling would be the case injanuary before christmas, what we were on track for — it was around 50,000 infections a day and we didnt see that materialise, or anything like that materialise....

Personally critical of experts. i have actually set far too much has been asked of them. unfair burdens have been placed on their shoulders and we need to recognise they are human to and have a better structure of expert advice. and also the modelling needs reforming because it has been too wrong too often. i hear you and you are doing a lot of work on this but often, people hear your colleagues talk, people talked about a public health socialist state, for example, and they seemed to put freedo...

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