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People in november, the highest since records began in august 2010. 123,218 people had to wait at least four hours from the decision to admit, to admission, in december, which is slightly below the all—time high ofjust under 121,000, last october. so, very high numbers 0ctober. so, very high numbers again, a record high in fat, 0ctober. so, very high numbers again, a record high infat, number of people waiting for admission in english a&e departments. —— a record high in fact. the care system that supports people who are older and disabled is under "grim and relentless" pressure, accordi...

Schools open. final quick question for you, ms. o'connell. talking about in home tests. these are antigen tests. there is interesting rsearch about the ability to make pcr tests at home and there's companies, including one in connecticut, that believe with additional investment to bring those tests to scale, we could get pcr tests into families' hands at home in a cost that is at or below what companies are currently charing for antigen tests. >> we have worked closely with several manufacturers that you mentioned for these at-home pcr tests. we contracted with one of them and have reached 5 m...

Asper as well. this is a program that has collaborated with fema to increase surge testing. just over the holidays, we've increased federal testing sites for pcrs, 12,000 testing sites doing thousands of tests over the holidays. we also work with pharmacies. in that stead, we are able to map where the pharmacies are and their social vulnerability index and we can put pcr tests in areas of high social vulnerability index through all of our pharmacy partners. then we put tests in our community centers as well. really a broad stretch to get access to testing, especially among those most vulnerabl...

It's hoped the easing of testing rules will improve access to pcr tests for people with symptoms and key workers, following supply issues. northern ireland, scotland and wales have already implemented this change. if you don't do a pcr test, then you won't have the confirmatory test, because we know the pcr test is more accurate. and, also, if there are not pcr tests from the people who are isolating, then there is less genomic sequencing that will go on, so that may mean it is more difficult to trace the variant in the population. however, this is a temporary change and it's a change while th...

Ownjudgment and being cautious. there's been quite a lot of talk of covid optimism, that although omicron is surging and seems to be a milder variant, actually, it's getting a lot of people a kind of immunity and that's not a bad thing. what's your view on that? i’m a what's your view on that? i'm a chronic optimist, _ what's your view on that? i'm a chronic optimist, that's - what's your view on that? i'm a chronic optimist, that's why - what's your view on that? i'm a chronic optimist, that's why i'm really glad i have no role in advising because i'm hopelessly optimistic. so, i'm disastro...