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Today really is a new chapter in our fight against covid—19, as we return to plan a. we said when we learned about omicron, we needed to build our defences and buy time to do that. that was the purpose of plan b, and if you look at the data now, it is in retreat. tens of thousands of office staff in england have already been encouraged to return to work. next week will see the end of mandatory face coverings and covid passes, as well as the return of night clubs and large indoor events in scotland, the relaxing of rules for hospitality in northern ireland and a gradual easing of restrictions...

Look, you've got to account for natural immunity here as well and you'll remember, john, may of last year, at that point it was predicted in the united states alone that a third of the population had been exposed to the virus. so since then we have had delta and omicron. there's a lot of natural immunity out there. >> sorry, go on, sanjay. >> so a lot of natural immunity out there. but let me just show you in terms of the benefit of the booster versus the vaccinated versus people who just are looking at case rates. what you find is that the biggest difference is really between the people who a...

Slow the spread? >> the reality is we're still in a position where we could use more testing. part of the value of the testing, the importance of being able to do those things after one finds a positive test which is a type of quarantining. the other idea about the important thing about having testing is that allows us to understand more about what's going on so that we can plan and prepare. >> dr. anderson, we heard the president say on wednesday we are moving toward a time when covid won't disrupt our daily lives. do you share that optimism? are we close to that point now? >> you know, i -- ...

Back on. >> doctor, is it time for mandates to be lifted considering what we're seeing? >> well, we are saying a downtrend in cases almost all across the country. the thing about omicron being so infectious is a lot of people were infected. it's likely the case will continue to climb because the virus doesn't have that many new places to go. do we know masks are effective add preventing transmission? yes. on an individual level, absolutely. it will protect you. if you feel safer wearing a mask, go ahead. i think the writing is on the wall as case rates start to go down, there's a lot of pressu...

Because we're seeing that spike come down. and it would be like fumbling the ball at the 5 yard line. we're almost there. we just need to hang in there a little longer. >> doctor, all of this fighting two years into the pandemic about masking kids in schools. i've wondered about this. when you compare a place like new york, every kid is wearing a mask, not an issue. you compare that to florida where governor desantis has tried to ban mask mandates. some schools have sort of pushed back on that and they're doing their own thing, but are kids in florida actually getting more sick more often? in ...