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Is a little bit expensive, even a lateral flow test when you do it privately costs money. and obviously its an inconvenience for travellers. the travel industry has been arguing quite forcefully that it is time to end restrictions altogether. because they have been shown to inconvenience passengers, because economic harm but the travel industry argues they do little to hold the omicron wave. at the moment we dont know what will happen for non—vaccinated passengers, they currently have to isola...

General population, only 10% of individuals are unvaccinated but those individuals are disproportionately being admitted to icu. the greatest thing you can do to protect yourself against icu admission and hospital admission is to get vaccinated. here it shows why we are in such a good position in this country right now and why we have seen reductions in our hospitalisation compared to where we could have expected a month ago, where we see reductions in case numbers and falling case numbers in th...

We have about 60-70,000 people on the hospital for covid, not h just with incidentally, but for covid, and we have the difference is from influenza, w have a staffing crisis right now . 10-25 percent of the staff in healthcare have left. many permanently, many of them had natural immunity that were fired, they had antibodies circulating in their blood that neutralize the virus, but they were antibodies the government does not recognize. people want the science and the want it straight what i fin...

On staff and patients makes things more complex. we have been hit by workforce shortages, the omicron wave has affected that as well. we have also had to work closely with our care homes, so our care homes have been managing outbreaks with their staff, but some with residents as well and that affected their ability to take people from hospital. although the number of covid infections is falling, hospitals remain under significant pressure and those pressures can be seen right across the system �...

Measures in england can be �*substantially reduced�* next week. he says it�*s likely that the uk has reached the peak of the omicron wave of infections. in scotland — restrictions are to be eased from next monday — with nightclubs reopening, large indoor events resuming and social distancing rules dropped. our health correspondent dominic hughes reports. follow round into lane one here. in blackburn, a part of the country still seeing very high covid infection rates the push on vaccina...

Complacent, and also as cases come down, theres still plenty of them to cause people illness and clog up hospitals and ers. >> oh, yeah, 100%. but you mentioned other countries and there are some experts who believe that this omicron wave may have peaked already in britain. the uk could, in fact, be among the first countries to emerge from the pandemic, so is there anything in your mind that really specifically indicates covid will transition to an endemic after omicron wanes? >> too soon to tel...

Parts of the country. green is good. new york is green. >> we are winning. we are winning. and we are going to win. >> reporter: but not yet. more than 100 patients left waiting for an icu bed in oklahoma city monday morning. our care givers are still strong, according to an open letter penned by four health care bosses in the city. but they are exhausted. even these heroes cant keep up much longer. >> we have to stop the happy talk about omicron. this is still a very serious pathogen, especiall...

Get vaccinated dead set against. and this big group of vaccine resistant which is a total outlier, its having a profound intangible effect. now let me be clear, as we said on the show before, the biden administration is falling short in dealing with the virus in testing capacities, to confusion around quarantine guidelines, but it really stands out in terms of this countrys battle against covid especially deal with this omicron wave. which has washed over places that such as varied as south afri...

Hospitalizations, and that is all terrible news. there is a glimmer of good news amid these huge overwhelming surges, though. we mentioned earlier this week first reports out of new york city. new york city, of course, was the first big american city to be hit by the omicron wave. we talked earlier this week about first reports that cases and hospitalizations had started to slow down in their rise and started potentially to plateau or even decline. that trend is still holding in new york. and no...

Testing. there have been changes in testing rules, reinfection is apart from in wales arent counted. but with hospital admissions we can also see last week they looked like they were plateauing nationally, but some regions of england have still seen them rising. but this week, all regions are seeing the corner turned. it is very much the best case scenario territory when the morning warnings were made before christmas, the current levels of about 2000 hospitalisations per day, so that is giving ...