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According to the international monetary fund. their forecast for uk growth in 2022 has been cut to 4.7% from 5%. the imf also lowered forecasts for the us and china, the world's two biggest economies. i'm joined by our reporter noor nanji. tell us more. yes, this is essentially the imf presenting a gloomy outlook for the global outlet this year. to gloomy outlook for the global outlet this ear. ., ,., �* , gloomy outlook for the global outlet this ear. ., �*, ., this year. to some extent it's no big surprise- _ this year. to some extent it's no big surprise. as _ this year. to some extent ...

Shown on this graph here if you look around the world at countries where omicron waves are ongoing and where elderly populations have lower vaccination rates, the rate of hospitalisation is substantially higher. the next slide, please. i think even more striking is what happens when we get into the most severe patients who go into intensive care and what this graph shows going up to the age of 70, after that the data becomes less easy to interpret because of other factors, less easy to interpret because of otherfactors, but less easy to interpret because of other factors, but the less easy to ...

Attending Physician Brian Monahan says the average rate of infection there has soared from less than one percent to more than 13 percent.

Lost from the system. we've seen hundreds of thousands of cases of abuse and neglect that were missed, because we no longer had the ability to detect them. millions of missed meals whether schools are closed. the harms to kids, the severe outcomes are very rare. one in 100,000 is the hospitalization rate risk. that has been consistent through the alpha wave, delta wave and early signals from the omicron waves. the deaths for kids is down to 1 to 2 per million, mercifully. it is clear we can't make the same mistakes and close schools again. >> you mentioned some of the data shows kids at very l...

>> yes, but not necessarily. when you look at, for instance, the numbers in new york, you are seeing hospitalizations now starting to creep up in possibly washington, d.c., which are our two worst areas being hit right now by the omicron variant. here's my concern, stephanie. one of the reasons why in the u.k. and south africa we're not seeing as many hospitalizations, could be for a different reason, and that those -- the omicron waves in those two countries hit on top of the delta waves. you had delta and omicron back to back, and almost continuously. what that meant was a lot of omicron inf...