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Under three million people who had the virus in the uk last week. that was down, although falling at a slower rate than before. in england, where one in 20 had the virus, wales one in 30 and scotland one in 30, case rates were lower, but, in northern ireland, with one in 20, the trend was said to be uncertain. at the population level, things are looking much better than they were a few weeks ago. most if not all of the indicators are moving in the right direction and that is good news, wejust ne...

Better, it will allow them to live more of a normal life and it will definitely reduce their anxiety, so just awareness of others would be amazing. restrictions in northern ireland are being eased today, with nightclubs reopening and indoor standing events such as concerts allowed again, though proof of vaccination or a negative test result will be required. the latest office for national statistics survey suggests there were just under 3 million people who had the virus in the uk last week. tha...

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Through and omicron, a little more minor than the delta phase and we need to move on and move forward. >> there are a lot of democratic cities like baltimore, san francisco, denver, all lifting indoor mask man dates. they have gotten chair commune tips vaccinated. so what about places where vaccine rates are still low. what do you think of that? you know, most of the places in colorado, where i know it more intimately, the places that have lower vaccination rates in colorado havent had masks f...

The population level protection, and youre right, denver has high vaccination rates and its reasonable they are moving away from the masking. >> i know, but to pay the price for -- for getting what you -- masked immunity. that is a pretty -- that is a pretty harsh price to pay. death or hospitalization or serious illness. >> its frustrating. but thats the decision that some people have made, right? simple thing. getting vaccinated reduces your risk. it depends on your age group, but 50 fold, dep...

Prepared for any potential future waves of the virus.| that was emma vardy at stormont. our medical editor fergus walsh is with me. first question is lots of people are asking today, are these changes announced by borisjohnson justified by the latest figures on the pandemic?— by the latest figures on the andemic? , ., , ., , pandemic? the number of people in hosital pandemic? the number of people in hospital with — pandemic? the number of people in hospital with covid _ pandemic? the number ...

Immunosuppressant medications. steph says surely if we knew how safe we are after four vaccines it would enable us to make some progress back to some normality? interesting question. to some normality? interesting ruestion. �* , , , ., question. antibody testing is not really widely _ question. antibody testing is not really widely available, - question. antibody testing is not really widely available, but - question. antibody testing is not really widely available, but if i question. antibody...

Countries that we analysed, there was essentially no change in terms of physical activity, participation at the population level, so the data is basically saying that we hope that the olympics could create a legacy for the communities in terms of sports participation and being physically active, but there is limited data to back it up. what you think there should be doing more of to try and get people moving? 50. doing more of to try and get people moving?— doing more of to try and get people ...

Emergency room and colleagues in hospitals around the country, they continue to emphasize that the people they are seeing who are hospitalize ready primarily those who are not vaccinated. so, remember, these vaccines work, those boosters are more important than ever before. there is another glimmer of hope here, as we look at data from south africa and the united kingdom, were seeing increasing signs that the severity to an individual of omicron compared to prior variants may in fact be lower. w...

In part because of high levels of existing population immunity. and i think what were seeing in children right now is a signal for whats going to happen also amongst the unvaccinated, that in fact the risk of hospitalization and more severe disease remains significant, probably more so than with the original wild-type covid strain that we saw two years ago. and the risk, of course, is that will get worse as schools reopen and the case numbers continue to rise. even if the risk for one individual...