we spoke to dr natasha kathuria, an emergency room doctor in austin, texas about this. here s what she said. every er doctor and icu doctor that s working in an area with an active covid surge in america shares those feelings at that physician. you know, we have patients all the time that they lose that sense of urgency, they don t get the vaccine, and them in they fall critically ill and come to us to save them and protect them, they are desperate at that point, and it s just too late, we of course cannot vaccinate someone when they are actively sick with covid 19. so, we see that scenario happened far too often. we have two big pools of people who are unvaccinated in america. we have got those who believe in these, you know, extremist conspiracies and they are very anti vaccine, you know, not a lot of logic and their fears about the vaccine and those patients are not the ones
protests erupted were talking about systemic change come about radical change and new economic models. now they are hoping that that tankers will be able to off load their cargo of he so that we will not reach complete darkness so that hospitals well not to be forced to shut down. that is the level of expectation that people have been forced to reach at the moment. so, and all of this is happening amid this political paralysis and the absence of a government. we have a caretaker government that will not do anything except what it means constitutionally deems constitutionally deems constitutionally acceptable, and that does not include trying to resolve the issues that are plaguing the country at the moment. so people are not expecting at the moment radical change or anything close to what they were hoping for when the protests erupted back in 2019. what they are looking for right now is
guest hinton, it s another story for many other countries around the world and even some of our bbc colleagues coming back to visit relatives are having to do quarantine in a hotel. that costs money and so this is really a story about rich countries being able to open up more while poor countries remain very limited in their travel options. i remain very limited in their travel 0 tions. ~ , options. i think it will be interesting options. i think it will be interesting naomi, - options. i think it will be interesting naomi, we i options. i think it will be . interesting naomi, we were options. i think it will be interesting naomi, we were seeing the london heathrow ceo they re looking for a later form the london heathrow ceo they re looking for a laterform of the london heathrow ceo they re looking for a later form of testing shall we say, maybe that will be the next step. but on the whole, are people reacting positively? i suppose government ministers would say we have got to a po
a scheme to, you know, they had a scheme, but they are now sort of ramping up their scheme to relocate their interpreters, many more people work for the americans than for the british. it s a cut off. i mean, you know, what constitutes a rejection? for what sort of offence, was it a disciplinary offence? was it something more serious because? but also, what groups do you include or disclude? for example, what about drivers? what about, you know, there is a gentleman who was an afghan gardener who has come under threat. so, anybody, the problem is, anybody who has been in afghanistan and worked for the british, you know, there are no secrets and afghanistan. people know. and if they are in an area where the taliban on the rise, their lives are going to be interact. their lives are going to be under threat on that last point the taliban has been growing in strength this year, ever since the announcement that us, british and all other nato forces will leave afghanistan by the 11th of
writes, let s turn to the health of the people in uk now. a study has found that more than a third of adults in their late 40s have multiple chronic health issues. this research was jumbled in the journal bmc public health. it found 26% of people drink alkali levels considered high risk. 21% reported suffering from current back problems. 19% of people said they suffered from poor mental health. and 16% of those taking part had high blood pressure. people from poorer background were more likely to find themselves with mutliple problems that s two or more from the list compared to those from richer backgrounds. george ploubidis from unversity college london worked on the study. this is one of our findings that early economic disadvantage is associated with the presence of more long term chronic conditions, long term conditions in midlife.