Page 33 - Omicron Wave News Today

For any time soon. lateral flow tests are absolutely essential to keeping us protected and to keep our economy open. its notjust isolation rules that could hit hospital staffing. by february the 3rd all nhs staff in england with direct contact with patients need to have had their first vaccine jab or risk losing theirjobs by the end of march. one nhs boss acknowledges that could affect around 10% of his workforce. we have approximately 14,000 staff... you could lose more than 1,000? in an extrem...

Pressure on employers hit by staff absences, especially in the nhs. it comes as the number of people in england waiting to start routine hospital treatment has risen to another record high during the pandemic. our health corresponent, dominic hughes, reports now from warrington hospital in cheshire. you did say there was a space in here a while ago. in the emergency department at warrington hospital, staff are having to manage competing pressures. the omicron wave is sweeping across north—west...

Testing, and why that supply will continue to increase in the months ahead. >> joining me now from newton, massachusetts is dr. ashish jha. he is the dean of brown universitys school of public health. thank you, doctor, for all that you do. >> thank you for having me on, rosemary. >> so doctor, i did want to ask you why the u.s. surgeon general is issuing this warning to americans not to expect omicron infections to peak anytime soon and if not in the coming days then when will they likely peak?...

These kids need school. >> ill tell ya what, jonathan lemire, what is maddening is, what we heard all last year is lets put teachers at the front of the line. we said it here on the show. put teachers at the front of the line for vaccines so they can get back in. put teachers at the front of the line for boosters so they can get back into schools. teachers said, listen, well go back to school. we just need the vaccines. give us the vaccines, well go back to school. they got the vaccines. >> yeah...

Vaccinated. >> a 20 times greater chance of dying. meanwhile the u.s. recorded the highest daily rate of new covid infections in the world. covid hospitalizations also up 83% last two weeks. but scientists also seeing good signs. signs that the omicron wave may have peaked in the uk and may be about to happen here. with us to tonight, dr. erwin redlener, director of the center are disaster preparedness and director of pediatrics. is omicron peaking? if so, whats next? >> i hope so, stephanie. al...

What i mean is if they know its going to be a terrible wave but a fast one, if they could make different mitigation efforts based on that knowledge, do you think epidemiologically speaking they should feel confident in making those kind of adjustments to their plans? >> absolutely, absolutely. actually the places that have gone later that are just seeing increases or just in the beginning of this omicron wave, they are in many ways lucky that they can learn from everybody else. if they put in pr...

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 africa, denmark, uk. the pandemic we have right now, and that other countries are having is pr...

Contention in the past few days. so many people are angry and they are angry because australians feel like they have been abandoned by the government in the way they handled the omicron wave. this is a country where a few cases were enough to get a whole city into lockdown. melbourne is one of, well, the most lockdown city if you count the number of days. the cases are rising, testing clinics are overwhelmed, rapid antigen tests are unavailable, and here is a world famous athlete that has been v...

Country, new york in particular and other parts of the northeast where were starting to see a plateau and in some cases and early declining cases. the challenge is that the entire country is not moving at the same pace. the omicron wave started later in other part of the country, so we shouldnt expect a national peak in the next coming days. the next few weeks will be tough. >> given that, where do you expect the country will be past this omicron surge? >> well, you know, in the part of the coun...

Lot of those 5 and up kids have siblings under the age of 5. so theyre bringing home covid. >> right. >> were hearing about parents getting infected and little kids getting infected. thats happening all over the place. now that the vaccine mandates in the workplace have been shot down, well have parents bringing home their infections to little kids. so, yeah, this is a real concern and why ive been saying, look, during this terrible omicron wave, which is so much transmission going on, lets not ...