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couple of months when i have the chance because o i think it s relevant as we learn new details about new variants and maybe even new potential pandemics. dr. gupta, let me start with you. before we go any further about the messaging, give us and our viewers the very latest scientific information we know about the omicron variant in terms ofth how contagious it is are vaccines still effective, is it any more deadly? what do we know? ayman, good evening. it s great to be here on this panel with hayes and dr. watson. this is what i ll say for all your viewers out i there, that these headlines are okay, that this is what this is not surprising rather. so far, ayman, what we re seeing is there is noai epidemic of yog otherwise healthy people who got vaccinated who may have even had the booster stateside or in south africa who ended up in the hospital requiring icu level care, even hospitalization level care outside the icu. what we do see in south africa is exponential growth of this
sure that they rarely can look after every older person with dignity and respect. mr every older person with dignity and res-ect. ~ , , , every older person with dignity and res-ect. ~ , , respect. mr deputy speaker, can i think my right respect. mr deputy speaker, can i think my right honourable - respect. mr deputy speaker, can i think my right honourable friend l respect. mr deputy speaker, can i l think my right honourable friend for his remarks and welcome the scrutiny that he and his committee are going to provide, i m not sure about the seven hours bats, but i very much welcome the scrutiny and intention. 0n welcome the scrutiny and intention. on his two questions, absolutely in terms of preparing for future pandemics, huge amount of work that s already gone on that. just yesterday, met the chief executive for the uk hsa that will work on much of this and also i think my right honourable friend knows this, but for the benefit of others that the best part of the year i have spe
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By early February 2020, China had effectively locked down tens of millions of its citizens. Entire hospitals were sprouting from scratch to cope with an onslaught of coronavirus cases there. The World Health Organization had just declared that the outbreak of the novel coronavirus was a “public health emergency of international concern.” And on February 7, I went on a radio show and spent much of the segment discussing the economic implications of the ordeal for East Asia.
I often think about that segment now and wonder how I could have been so unimaginative. I was so focused on the desperate scenes in China that I failed to consider that similar scenes could soon transpire around the world. Why didn’t I grab the mic, dispense with the usual commentary, and issue an urgent plea for the world to wake up?