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These are not normal times, however. we are living in a particular py tense age. the country is deeply divided. we are in the midst of this pandemic. what we need is people to calm down. the bitter divisions that we see in this country are exacerbated by this tendency to exaggerate and do so grossly. "the washington post" the other day had a headline about the omicron variant break in the southeast saying it's going to be a firestorm. fire storms kill people. what we seem to know about omicron so far is that it's not particularly deadly. if it's deadly at all. oso, that's the kind of overstate...

Because the systems are less, they might be more likely. let's go through the science because i think that salt lake city article just reflects the hysteria. the vaccine does not seem to be as effective as we would like i to be against the spread. i think it's good to have the vaccination, but it won't help people around you as much as we thought. the durability much shorter wit omicron. and remember, 90 percent of folks over 65, the vulnerable population got vaccinated so th people who should be worried we're worried and they got the vaccine. we're blaming the failure of th medication on nonu...

Health. it's totally unhealthy. it's divisive, it's political. it's unpleasant. i understand why people are coming to florida. >> lawrence: yeah. that's why you are doing a good job leading. kayleigh, i want you to react to this pediatric doctor talking about pediatric cases on msnbc. watch. >> the number of children hospitalized with covid-19 is soaring nationwide. so what are you seeing at your hospital in terms of are children coming in with omicron? is it delta? is it omicron that's creating this big impact? >> as far as children that are admitted for covid pneumonia i happen to be on serv...

Backlog _ act for example on that enormous backlog of— act for example on that enormous backlog of patients waiting for operations, build up record long walts— operations, build up record long waits and — operations, build up record long waits and we have to be realistic about _ waits and we have to be realistic about the — waits and we have to be realistic about the extent to which the health service _ about the extent to which the health service can _ about the extent to which the health service can do that work for the next few— service can do that work for the next few weeks of a...

Figures are probably a bit of an underestimate. the figures out from the oas ella today said 1.7 million people in the uk are infected with coronavirus at the moment, a number that has gone up by about a quarter over three days. it shows you that no matter how you look at it omicron is splitting very quickly, and we see the pressure that is putting on society. even if it doesn't cause any sickness at all, we had yesterday that about 1.5% of nhs staff were off work due to coronavirus, that has gone up and the last week. if that rate of growth and spread of omicron goes on, that will put pressur...