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Our population that is simply not going to comply with public health guidelines, and we need to figure a way as a society to live with it and to live with this segment of our population? or is the risk just too severe for it? >> look, most public health experts say at some point the covid-19 will become endemic. that means it will be a little more like a seasonal flu or something like that. >> here to stay. >> no, i mean, im not going to accept, you know, a thousand or 2,000 people dying a day n...

Both sides, and i am hoping that the -- the productivity that weve seen over the last two days will continue through the weekend. and were going to be able to announce a deal to get our kids back in school. >> the white house says they have been in touch with both you and -- and the governor to, quote, assess your needs. governor pritzker told bloomberg news he asked for testing. what have your conversations with federal authorities been like? and what is, specifically, the issue on testing that...

>> thinking about the conversations around our christmas table yesterday, with family, double vaccinated, boosted, and tested that morning with a lateral flow test to make sure -- but thinking about that conversation, as im sure similar in your own household, but thinking about the conversation, people were talking about -- family was talking about, is this the future? where we have to live with it, so its no longer pandemic, its endemic. we have a testing regime. and you just get on with it. >>...

Testing regime and the self—isolation rules. because cases of coronavirus are so high in the community at the moment, we no longer need routinely to take a follow—up pcr test after a positive lateral flow test result. 0ur wales correspondent, hywel griffith, has been telling us the latest update has thrown up some suprises. perhaps what many people were expecting was a suggestion that there be no changes for at least two weeks while many thought that we might be approaching the peak of the 0...

However, i guess there are a lot of people questioning the testing regime. and, you know, the more tests you get, the more you dont have symptoms and you test positive and you are out of work for five days. 10 days maybe for some universities and some major companies. its a major disrupter to the country. we are stuck in this situation because the biden administration failed to order rapid tests between january and september. they still havent fulfilled this 50 million to fq 8 cs that they promi...

Administration has not been perfect on this, not at all. you know, they were slamming the trump administration for not having the testing regime, you know, to track the viruss spread and they fell down on testing, too. and theres a lot of blame right now to be spread around here. there are hopeful signs here in new york that the number of cases does seem to be going down and the hospitals do seem to be holding up, but, man, this is really tough and this isnt anything -- there may be some low lev...

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Is all very well advising workers to self—isolate, but that wont work unless all workers have security of knowing they can afford to do so. the labour leader sir keir starmer. next to him you could see the labour health spokesman wes streeting. he is with our political correspondent ian watson, who joins is with our political correspondent ian watson, whojoins me know from the house of commons. the ian watson, who joins me know from the house of commons.— the house of commons. the hash shado...

Of restrictions to be published. ian blackford has said lifting the restrictions now flew in the face of advice from the world health organization and others in the scientific community. there is no guarantee the scientific advice will be published but it has been a case that in recent sage documents, the scientific advisers, they pointed out that ending the legal requirement to self—isolate would almost certainly push cases up by as much as 45%. ian blackford had another complaint to make, an...

This week. and then when it comes to covid statutory sick pay on day one, that will only be available for another month, and then in april, free testing for everyone will be scrapped. people will have to start paying for it. there will be some exemptions, though. those who are high—risk and most vulnerable will still be able to get access to those free tests. and yesterday we heard the government say the testing regime cost £2 billion injanuary and it needs to be scaled back over time, so lot...