let's get more on hospital trusts in england declaring critical incidents — the highest state of alert — as the nhs comes under significant strain from rising covid infections. dr leon danon is associate professor in infectious disease modelling and data analytics at bristol university, and is a member of the goverment�*s advisory disease modelling group spi—m. speaking to us in a personal capacity he said daily cases of over 200,000 yesterday are likely to be an underestimate and represent a real "cause for concern". it is still growing, i don't think there is any evidence of it slowing down anywhere in the countryjust yet, so the only way the numbers are going to go is up. we need to remember that we haven't yet seen the peak of this epidemic due to the fact that people are no longer able to get covid at all, so that means