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Want to limit that right now. yes, the who said something similar today. the comparing strains of omicron with flu is possibly confusing. they are right. 0micron is milder than delta, and well take it, but does that mean —— that does not mean it is milder than the flu. it is still causing an incredible amount of death across the globe when the transmission rate like i said are really high right now, and i think our message right now is we are still in a pandemic. we still have this virus tra...

Joining me now from houston is katelyn jetelina, a professor of public health at the university of texas. thanks for being with us. i know its a very different picture in the uk at the moment is what you are experiencing in the united states, but as the transport secretary was saying today, there are some of these restrictions, surely, they have outlived their usefulness, and i would have thought travel restrictions were up there, because its everywhere. yeah, this virus is everywhere, especiall...

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Combination of the reduction in the period, plus the lateral flow test will give you, hopefully, roughly the same level of protection against infections as you do with the ten day quarantine. it does mean you should not be cautious in some of the guidance does tell you about that. .,, , , the guidance does tell you about that. , ., . ., , ., that. possible with omicron but not ossible that. possible with omicron but not possible with _ that. possible with omicron but not possible with delta? _ t...

Scotland, looking at scottish data, which is very encouraging and ache for these early national data suggested omicron is associated with a two thirds reduction in the risk of covid—19 hospitalisations when compared with delta. now, it is quite small. its only based on 22,000 omicron admissions, largely in young people, but if it had been delta, they estimate that shouldve been 47 admissions and in fact, there only 15. its very encouraging.- there only 15. its very encourauain. , ., , encourag...

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Well, its literally in the next day or two, there will be more information about severity of omicron and how will vaccines protect against severe disease, and put into place to help scientists and understand the characteristics of the omicron variant and that will then feed into the decisions that ministers need to take as to what, if any measures, additional measures need to be put in place to try to of the virus. . ., ~ , ., , the virus. catherine, thank you very much. lets talk to our politic...

Unvaccinated people. not an boosted people. and b must be very clear that the vaccines we have remain effective against both the delta and omicron variance. the global priority must be to support all countries to reach the target as quickly as possible and the 70% target by the middle of this year. no country can boost its way out of the pandemic. in boosters cannot be seen as a ticket to go ahead with the plan celebrations without the need for other precautions. people infected with covid19 in ...

Surprise at all in white whole or in any of the developed nations. we are still within a rising wave infections that is going across the country and this is what officials had expected. but we have seen as a fracturing of the response to these figures across the uk and so we have seen governments in wales, scotland and northern ireland have tighter curbs for activities after christmas day whereas if we wait to see if thatis day whereas if we wait to see if that is a path that the westminster gov...