and these new yorkers that are doing this it s hypocritical. brian: what about eric adams gone to little italy without a mask on. doublings down it prior to that. ainsley: 13 days after imposing school mandates on masks. steve: i seen in the daily mail former president barack obama apparently building a brand new mansion out there. everybody is masked up in hawaii except the former president and he looks like he is very concerned about how the sea wall is going. interesting thing about his new house out in hawaii. remember the show imagine mum p.i.? he actually bought that mansion, tore it down and is now building his own place. brian: right by the water. i guess he is not worried about global warming or creeping up of the seas. not worried about that. steve: got a big sea wall, he might be. brian: especially important, nobody thinks wearing a mask outside makes sense.
there has been a warning put out. they believe that russian forces have somehow gotten ahold of ukrainian military uniforms, and they re worried about what might happen if people leave their homes, and they think they re encountering ukrainian military when in fact they re encountering russian troops. now, earlier in the day i was at a nearby metro station, one of the main metro stations in the capital, which is doublings a bomb shelter at this point. hundreds of people were huddled inside the station including a woman and her 13-year-old sister. she was cuddling her sister. she said that she was absolutely terrified. they were were aid because when the sirens went off they ran to one shelter, and the rest of their family were only able to make it to a shelter on the other side of the town. and they were concerned about what would happen should they
it s also going to mean that the peak comes very quickly, isn t it? i mean, this is going to burn very fast indeed. yeah, i think a bit of a calculation, i have to admit, but the 0ns figures ii read is close to 200,000 every day, there are only so many doublings you can go through before you are infecting the entire population of the uk every couple of hours, so eventually it does burn itself out, and that s why the models that look at where the peak might come in terms of a figure but the 0ns figures ii read is close to 200,000 every day, we really care about, people going into hospital who are sick, that s kind of peaking injanuary february, probably different where it s time for it to do so. well, earlier, ispoke to data journalistjohn burn murdoch from the financial times, who gave this assessment on the covid hospitalisations happening in london. if we compare where we are right now
that s gone up by about half in a week. so it s that kind of rate of growth and spread of omicron continues to go up, that is eventually going to put pressure on hospitals, schools and businesses as people have to isolate. it s also going to mean that the peak comes very quickly, isn t it? i mean, this is going to burn very fast indeed. yeah, i think a bit of a calculation, i have to admit, but the 0ns to give us a nice few days, we proceed closer to 200,000 every day, there are only so many dubliners there are only so many doublings you can go through before you are infecting the entire population of the uk every couple of hours, so eventually it does burn itself out, and that s why the models that look at where the peak might come in terms of a figure we really care about, people going into hospital people going into hospital who are sick, that s kind of peaking injanuary february, probably different where it s time for it to do so. joining me now isjohn burn murdoch, data journalis
got the clear evidence, and i think i m right in saying that sage only met yesterday to discuss this, the evidence about the transmissibility of the virus, as we ve been watching it for days, but it has become, unafraid, unmissable, notjust in south africa but in this country as well. and if you delay, as everybody knows, with a doubling time of 2.5 to three days, you see more doublings and your position becomes predictably, inevitably worse, and more difficult to recover from. predictably, inevitably worse, and more difficult to recoverfrom. on christmas, the best way to ensure we all have christmas as close to normal as possible is to get on with plan b, irritating though it may be, it is not a lockdown, it is plan b, it is not a lockdown, it is plan b, it is not a lockdown, it is plan b, it is what we set out a while back,