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Questions. sir keir starmer is isolating, having tested positive for coronavirus for a second time. jonathan blake, bbc news. im joined now by our health editor hugh pym. this change in the rules that health chiefs are talking about about not needing pcr tests if you are asymptomatic, what is the thinking behind that? the asymptomatic, what is the thinking behind that?— behind that? the current rules are that if ou behind that? the current rules are that if you are _ behind that? the current r...

Happening in general practice. and so i think doctors and nurses on the front line know that you cant solve these problems overnight, but what they want to know is that there is a plan for the future. that its worth them staying in the profession. and thats why a massive overhaul of our workforce planning, which is frankly broken at the moment, is a top priority that we recommend. the committee is also urging the government to publish an independent assessment of projected staff numbers every tw...

Gone away by then, but the cdc says so too would the likelihood of transmitting the virus. dr. walensky was also pressed on why no test is required to confirm an all clear >> that antigen test was not authorized for this purpose the information would not be useful. regardless of what the antigens have said, we would say you still need to wear your mask for five days. >> reporter: complicating things, the fda now says those antigen home tests are also less able to detect omicron learn johnson rec...

Meeting over this review of covid measures for england and of course we had heard from other parts of the uk on that as well.— uk on that as well. yes, parliament ma have uk on that as well. yes, parliament may have been _ uk on that as well. yes, parliament may have been in _ uk on that as well. yes, parliament may have been in recess _ uk on that as well. yes, parliament may have been in recess for - uk on that as well. yes, parliament may have been in recess for the i uk on that as well. ye...

As i said in the intro, its totally ridiculous at this point in the pandemic, is it not, to be unable to get access to rapid tests, pcr tests. what do you think is behind this testing failure? >> well, i think the problem is, throughout the pandemic, weve trusted in the private market to deliver. and we really should be thinking about public health as more like homeland security being proactive, looking for upcoming threats and reacting, you know, ahead of time. and the private market reacts whe...

The pcr testing and they do need to be addressed because otherwise we lose control of the numbers of infections per day, but i do think that the data supports the move to lateral flow, for community testing. i think what we need to do now is used pcr tests and thats probably for the most clinically vulnerable, clinical cases in hospitals and may be the idea of using them for key workers rather than lateral flow tests. i workers rather than lateral flow tests. . , workers rather than lateral flow...

Who had covid-19. the cdc didnt add that criteria, and i think, frankly, they didnt add that criteria because there simply werent enough tests to allow people to do that. hopefully thats starting to change. we need to use the tests in the proper way. >> do you think that were relying too much on the pcr tests and we should focus more on the rapid at-home antigen tests? >> they each have their use. the antigen tests are great to tell you when youre sort of done, when you can leave isolation. that...

Body yet. so, thats the reason why if you have symptoms and it looks as though you do have covid but you test negative on the lateral flow, thats why you need to have a pcr test to confirm it. on the other hand, if you have covid and you do a lateral flow and it tests positive, you can rely on that. its definitely true that you will have covid. its a 99% chance that that positive lateral flow test will be a genuine positive. that does mean one in a thousand cases people will test positive and th...

Lateral flow _ on the front page. if you do a lateral flow test, _ on the front page. if you do a lateral flow test, you - on the front page. if you do a lateral flow test, you cant i on the front page. if you do a i lateral flow test, you cant take a pcr test — lateral flow test, you cant take a pcr test unless you have symptoms? if pcr test unless you have symptoms? if your _ pcr test unless you have symptoms? if your lateral flow is negative, isnt it? ~ , , ., if your lateral flow is negati...

Commissioner continually point at data saying that schools are actually the safest place for children to be, but i think its important to note, though, in terms of vaccination rates younger students age 5 to 11, younger kids in the city of chicago, only 24% of them are vaccinated. the cps student population in general, its under a third. 91% of teachers are vaccinated, but that is cause for concern. obviously as were seeing how contagious the spread of omicron is. on that misinformation point, t...