just had news in the last couple hours there were 90,000 new covid cases, just today. that's about 10,000 more than we saw yesterday's reporting. and yesterday had broken the record. not the record for omicron, not the record for just this year but the record for daily new cases since the pandemic began. so we are seeing in ernest a massive spike in the number of cases. chuck it is not just about cases. in the uk we're seeing this huge up tick and deaths have more or less stayed the same. they have kind of flat lined. so we're hearing from officials in government they are worried that hospitals and much loved nhs system here is going to be overwhelmed come january or in the coming weeks. that as big worry here and one of the reasons boris johnson the prime minister put that vaccine thing on overdrive. he's putting all of his eggs in this booster basket, really.