If youd like to get in touch this morning, you can tweet me vicderbyshire or email victoria bbc. Co. Uk. And the queen and Prime Minister have led tributes to captain sir tom moore, whos died at 100 years old after Testing Positive for Coronavirus Last week. The government says it will ensure hes officially remembered. I think we should find a way to make sure that we mark the memory of captain tom and thank him for the contribution that he made for the nhs. Good morning. The health secretary, matt hancock, has described as absolutely superb the findings of a study which suggests for the first time that the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine significantly reduces people passing on the virus. The research by oxford university, which has not yet been formally published, also found that the jab provides a high level of protection, even when theres a gap of 12 weeks between the two doses. Researchers believe that the vaccine remains 76 effective for up to three months after the first shot, while p
think about how we start peeling off this requirement for masking, for other things, asymptomatic testing, things we ve done to control this virus. one of the most important things we ve continue to do is vaccinate people and highly vaccinated communities, i think it makes a lot of sense to roll back masking requirements and indoor settings and to go to optional situation school. it s important to track certain metrics and i think the number of new hospitalizations secondary to covid and the icu capacity are two good metrics to follow as we make decisions. honestly, the metric has changed over the course of the pandemic. at first, it was just case rates that would imply when things needed to start shutting down again and now it seems like it s really changing. you mentioned vaccination rates are key. i want to play for you what dr. jonathan reiner said because he really thinks vaccination rates are key in this question of when
Arlington Public Schools will open its doors for regular in-person instruction next week amid concerns about the Omicron variant and record-high rates of new