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Correspondent dominic hughes. the good news is that booster jabs are holding fast against the omicron wave. even as new cases have surged, hospital admissions remain a long way off the peak seen this time last year. but hundreds of thousands of people are currently isolating for at least seven days, so now theres a suggestion that — in england, at least — that period could be cut to five days instead. i think if the experts, and i have to defer to the uk health and security agency, deem it a...

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Those are in short supplies. >> scott cohen from sympathy, thank you. joining me now california congresswoman sara jacobs a member of the house democratic steering and policy foreign affairs and armed services committees. welcome back to the broadcast. good to see you. as we talk about omicron racing through our state, in l.a. as we look at the numbers, the highest number of covid cases in one day was just recorded about 43,000. in san diego county, that includes your district, the cases are n...

That theyre going to start rationing care for emergency medical centers. rationing ambulances and emts. for the first time since the start of the pandemic. theyve never had to do that before. every day we are getting more and more stories from states across the country, trying to balance this unprecedented number of hospitalized patients with an equally unprecedented number of sick staff. but despite that very bad national picture, trying to find some silver lining here, some light on the horizo...

Than 1,000 staff? its an extreme position. but i am confident, and were already seeing a number of staff choosing to be vaccinated. the push on vaccinations and boosters, notjust for nhs staff but all of us, continues. but even though the omicron wave is not yet over, ministers are clearly thinking about what comes next and how we live in covid in the months to come. dominic hughes, bbc news. and the latest official figures on the virus show 141,472 new infections in the latest 24—hour period....

Conclude, my goodness, omicron, more dangerous for children in and of itself, thats not necessarily the case. but, still, a concern to see these rising numbers for children. kaitlan? >> yeah, especially given children under 5 are that last group ineligible to get vaccinated yet. elizabeth cohen, thank you. for more on all of this, lets bring in the dean of brown universitys school of public health, dr. ashish jha. in your view, the cdc changing this isolation period, cutting it for people who ...

We really have to ration now treatments because paxlovid is not going to be here in abundance in time for this omicron wave. and now, we have got two of our most important monoclonal antibodies knocked out, the lily and regeneron monoclonal antibodies do not work against omicron. all we have is the gsk monoclonal antibody and that is not available. so how do you ration paxlovid? how do you ration limited quantities of the gsk monoclonal antibody? and the answer is you want to make certain that p...

They were the only people to face trial, after a crowd pulled down the monument and threw it into the harbour in 2020. the uk prime minister, borisjohnson has confirmed in parliament that he plans to stick to plan b coronavirus measures in england for at least another three weeks. he said people should carry on working from home, wearing face coverings on public transport and in indoor public spaces and taking a test before going to high risk venues. but thanks to the sheer size of the omicron w...

>> be concerned, check. but not alarmed. ill get back to you about that part. ask me in five minutes. president biden today met with the covid response team at the white house. he said the omicron wave that is crashing over the country now is something we should be concerned about. but not alarmed about. if we are vaccinated. the distance between concern and alarm is a fine distance. a small distance for a lot of us. the great state of maryland today for example declared a 30 day state of emerge...

African experience to the rest of the world. it pointed out the uk appears to see more severe cases of the omicron variant compared to south africa. that said, a new study from respected scientists in south africa add to the dose of good news out of south africa. it found that only 2.5% of patients with the omicron variant ended up hospitalized compared to 12.8% of patients with the previous delta variant. that is promising and tracks with all the data weve seen from people treating omicron pati...