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Cancelling office parties family parties. i think there is a precautionary principle that the public understand about public health. you know, if in doubt — we don't know how bad omicron really will be, because it will take quite a few weeks before you really get mass hospitalisations, we're not there yet — they're more cautious. i think there's a lot of trouble with the nhs — i've been covering the nhs for more decades than i'd like to count — and it has never been in such a fragile state. and it entered this crisis — this covid crisis having had a decade of its most stringent fundi...

On that question of brexit no longer being an issue, this christmas, it doesn't really matter whether you've been naughty or nice, because omicron is coming to town, if it isn't already in your town. in the 2a hours to friday of this week, 93,000 people were infected. daily records have been broken all this week, and will probably continue to be broken, as the rate at which people are becoming infected far exceeds anything seen in the pandemic so far. boris johnson described the british government's response as a "jabathon" — giving people vaccine booster jabs to limit any effect this new, l...

Procedures have had to be put on hold over the last 21 months to deal with covid, and now the point perhaps where people were starting to feel the health service was able to get back into routine, some of it very important, some of it life—saving routine, it's kind of going to be forced back into a kind of reacting to covid situation. i'mjust remembering a year ago now when also, you had a new variant that was the kent variant, that was discovered here in britain, was galloping through the country. and the uncertainty that people felt. and now, just exactly 12 months later, we're having a bi...

Transmissible, is actually less virulent. now, as you said, if it's less virulent, but is still attacking a larger base of people, that could still create great problems for the health service. and we'll have to see how that pans out. we're seeing it doubling in the us every couple of days, which is much faster than delta, but hospitalisations haven't gone up across the board. they've been bad in some places like michigan or new york, and we've been seeing a lot more omicron cases there, but i think we need to approach this with the same caution that we've approached the other variants. we don...

I think there is a precautionary principle that the public understand about public health. if in doubt, we don't know how bad omicron will be, because it will take quite a few weeks before you really get mass hospitalisations, if that's what we're going to get. we're not there yet. people are more cautious. i think there's a lot of trouble with the nhs. i've been covering the nhs for more decades than i'd like to count, and it has never been in such a fragile state. and it entered this covid crisis having had a decade of its most stringent funding since it was founded in 19118. it had 100,000 ...