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In sweden and it is very different. i did not know prior to being here that it was a conservative country or that religion was such a part of this country as it actually is. and with that said, religion isn't necessarily tied together to conservatism. can also be liberal. however, many parts of this country are still very conservative. so the major difference is coming out every day walking on the streets here people turning their heads were given new locks and that is something that i hope will change that people do not have to go through this. it that people do not have to go through this.â€...

Country as it is and that said is that nature's thoroughly tied together to conservatism which might —— naturally thoroughly tied together to conservatism? what has made the major difference is coming out every day walking on the streets here, people telling their heads are giving you looks and that is something i hope will change and that people do not have to go through this. it that people do not have to go through this.— through this. it has been a roller-coaster _ through this. it has been a roller-coaster because - through this. it has been a roller-coaster because the through this...

For. that's what they're calling this twindemic. >> i assume the number one thing people can do is go get their flu shots. what can people do to protect themselves? >> when you talk about flu overall, you get millions of people who get diagnosed with flu in any given year, up to 800,000 hospitalizations and up to 61,000 people dying. much of that can be sort of mitigated by the vaccine, which is around. one thing i want to show you as much as we talk about the vaccine and hesitancy around covid, take a look at flu numbers as well in terms of vaccine uptake. it's 52% overall that people actuall...

I've been trying for years to tell disabled stories on conventional drama budgets, and every time i've been able to tell a disabled story on tv, it's been with a reduced budget because that's the only way of doing it. and we need to be elevated and we need to be put into the mainstream, and the reason why, and this was i think the reason why this speech belonged this year, is that i think that what covid showed — beyond anything else is the ableism is rife in our country and the fact that disabled people were shut out of conversations and ignored in the statistics as to how many deaths were ...

In the statistics as to how many deaths were put into different columns, how many disabled deaths, those with underlying health conditions were sort of relegated out of main statistics, and if you look at care homes and disabled people in those homes there was a massive over proportion of disabled deaths — of the first 100,000 covid deaths, 61,000 were disabled. and then the third thing, and the, sort of, the thing that i'm particularly aiming at is that our spaces in which we make our work are inaccessible and that disabled people cannot make shows because there is frequently huge barriers ...