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Make the investment in the staff. 44,000 make the investment in the staff. 114,000 more people in the nhs... sticking on covid... we have still got some restrictions, testing requirements on travel for covid, has anything we decided on the future of that? very important point. we have, thanks to the tough decisions, the big calls it be made, and i think most people would agree that we got the big calls right in this terrible struggle against covid, we have the most open economy and society in eu...

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 extreme position. but i am confident, and were already seeing a number of staff being vaccinated. the push on vaccinations ...

Things will get better, the omicron wave will fade hopefully in the next few weeks. money is going to bridges and highways, they are going try to push again on voting rights as best they can. they think inflation will hopefully start to go down come spring and summer. and they feel like vote letters recognize that come mid terms. >> donnie, when i worked in politics -- you can become captive to this idea that -- that if you keep chasing the cheese, you will catch it and you will be able to fix y...

The education secretary has said shortening the covid isolation period in england would be helpful in dealing with staffing shortages. nadhim zahawi said any decision would be made on the basis of advice from the uk health security agency — and said absences among teachers would rise now that schools are back. the us recently shortened isolation for those testing positive for covid from seven days to five. our health correspondent dominic hughes has more. the good news is that booster jabs are...

About the well-being of our kids. one of the factors has been the stability in their lives. school is a big part of that. so getting the vast, vast majority, 96% plus of kids back to school in the fall was a really important step. one of the things that ive been saying for a few weeks now is that during this omicron wave, these are going to be tough weeks and theyre going to be emergency decisions that some schools will need to make on pulling back from in-person for a short period of time if th...

Were learning more about how many people are getting reinfected with covid as well. nbc news gabe gutierrez joins us from outside mount sign any west hospital in new york. what more can you tell us about those battling reinfections and also this subvariant? >> reporter: hi there, jose. good morning. yes, we are starting to see more people reinfected with covid. here in new york state about 80% of reported reinfections have actually happened during the omicron wave. other states are seeing this a...

The omicron wave, we will be in a world where most people will have some sort of immunity, either through natural infections, vaccines, or both. we now know how -- how to get vaccines fast. we should approve them faster for new variants and we have treatments, too. the value of time for learning has dropped. we know most of what we need to know about it. so the benefits of social measures to stop covid are much lower. so, how are you so sure? i mean, one thing we have learned throughout the past...

>> americans are confused about where we are in the pandemic and i think its really important for president biden to lay out the two options. one is to prevent infection as the key goal. two is not just preventing infection, but lets get back to normal. if we are preventing infection, then the goal is vaccines, masking, testing, all these things that we have already been doing. but if the goal is returning to normal, then what president biden could say is that as long as vaccines are still prote...

To england plenty early in order to complete the ten-day mandatory quarantine for people who show up unvaccinated. >> a lot to come on this front in belgrade, serbia, thank you. thanks to all of you for watching this special edition of "the lead." im poppy harlow. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in "the situation room." happening now -- the omicron wave is still -- still very much on the rise here in the united states as experts warn the surge wont peak any time soon. but the cd...

Flu. >> what were seeing is that the country is essentially building a stronger and stronger wall of immunity. and that wall comes from mostly vaccination but also prior infection. but the stunning thing about omicron is how remarkably infectious it is. >> reporter: and on that infectiousness, data from johns hopkins shows that more than a quarter of all covid-19 cases reported since the pandemic began were reported in the last month. separately, dr. rochelle walensky says those eligible to be b...