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Narrowing. we have come so far thanks to the efforts of so many but with winter ahead, we cant blow it now. so we are going to do everything we can to maintain our lead by strengthening our vaccination programme as our primary line of defence. first we will redouble our efforts to encourage anyone who is eligible to take up the initial offer of a jab. there is almost 5 million people over the age of 16 that remain unvaccinated in the uk. it might be someone you know, a friend orfamily member or ...

Welcome to newsday — reporting live from singapore — im karishma vaswani. the headlines... a stark covid warning from the world health organisation — the pandemic will last longer because of the unequal distribution of vaccines. brazils president should face criminal charges over his handling of the pandemic — so says a parliamentary inquiry — but he dismisses the findings. britains health secretary rejects calls to reintroduce covid restrictions in england — even though he admits ca...

Tonight at ten, covid restrictions are likely to be reimposed in england if progress in giving booster vaccinations is not satisfactory. as the uk reports one of the highest weekly figures of new infections anywhere in the world, ministers say the booster is essential. weve been in a race, a race between the vaccine and the virus, and although were ahead in that race, the gap is narrowing. it raises the prospect of the reintroduction of mandatory face coverings and working from home, as health e...

Welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. im karishma vaswani. the headlines... brazils president should face criminal charges over his handling of the pandemic — so says a parliamentary inquiry — jair bolsonaro dismisses the findings. britains health secretary rejects calls to reintroduce covid restrictions in england — even though he admits covid cases could reach 100,000 a day in the uk. weve been in a race, a race between the vaccine and the virus. and although we are ahead in...

That was his thought crime. for that m.i.t., one of the most research universities in the world, caved in a matter of eight days. you can say to me oh, thats cherry picking, oh, thats a one off. what are the downstream effects of an example like that? every other scientist and academic watching that is saying wait, hold on, if hes being canceled for that, what does that mean for me? i might as well shut up. i might as well practice double think in the freest society in the history of the world. ...

Four weeks to smuggle through an op-ed that doesnt suit the conventional narrative? i might as well commission the 5,000th op-ed saying donald trump is a moral monster. whats going on is the transformation of these sense-making institutions of american life. its the news media, its the publishing house, hollywood studios, our universities, and that are narrowing in a radical way what is acceptable to say and what isnt. you and i both know there doesnt need to be an edict from the c s-suite for p...

On one about your concerns. what we hear time and again is that people dont have general concerns in our communities of color. people arent talking about conspiracy theories, they have specific questions about their own health history and how that relates to getting the covid vaccine. so once were able to answer peoples specific questions, what we find is that more and more folks get vaccinated. so now we are pleased to see that the inhe canek quities tha seen have been narrowing recently. >> i ...

Disapprove. the message that we heard from president biden over the weekend at this virtual meeting of the did democratic national committee was saying not only do we need to deliver, we need to keep our promises to people that we made in the 2020 election, but also talking about that unity, insisting we won in 2020 as a unified party and in 2022 we also need to run and win as a unified party, a huge part of that is coming to terms over this reconciliation bill. that gap has been narrowing. it s...

29% of americans, only 29% i should say know whats in it. the president now we know at this point wants to make about it the policy and not necessarily the price tag, though thats incredibly important. how does he do that when theres not a significant amount of americans that actually know the details of this bill? >> its tough. this white house acknowledges that. they know most people know more about how much this plan costs. most people know more about the process of getting it passed than kno...

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