but all that is erased by the fact that we are taking care of so many other patients and the extravagant contagiousness of this variant means it finds everybody and it highlights the under vaccinated or the unvaccinated. and so right now providing the top care that we are able to do becomes more and more difficult with each day. absolutely. can you draw any parallels to europe to see where this is going, because obviously it hit europe first, the 0micron wave, is there anything you can do to look across the pond and so we can look out for this or, you know. ? it is very difficult. for south africa, for example, it s a different time of year, so there some seasonality to this which i think will begin to understand. when you look at the uk and the eu compared to the united states there is a very big difference in terms of the level of mitigation in every community, the density of various populations, in the age of the vaccinated. we have a lot of people in this country who are vaccinated
it hit europe first, the 0micron wave, is there anything you can do to look across the pond and so we can look out for this or, you know. . ? it is very difficult. for south africa, for example, it s a different time of year, so there some seasonality to this which i think will begin to understand. when you look at the uk and the eu compared to the united states there is a very big difference in terms of the level of mitigation in every community, the density of various populations, in the age of the vaccinated. we have a lot of people in this country who are vaccinated who are older, but we also have people who are not boosted who are in that age group. young people can get this virus and spread it. and so i think that s really what s happening in some centres. we re seeing that several weeks ago younger people were the ones getting it. you saw those pictures of the long lines of people waiting for tests, those were young, healthy people. unfortunately, over the holidays they bring th
but all that is erased by the fact that we are taking care of so many other patients and the extravagant contagiousness of this variant means it finds everybody and it highlights the under vaccinated or the unvaccinated. and so right now providing the top care that we are able to do becomes more and more difficult with each day. absolutely. can you draw any parallels to europe to see where this is going, because obviously it hit europe first, the 0micron wave, is there anything you can do to look across the pond and so we can look out for this or, you know. . ? it is very difficult. for south africa, for example, it s a different time of year, so there some seasonality to this which i think will begin to understand. when you look at the uk and the eu compared to the united states there is a very big difference in terms of the level of mitigation in every community, the density of the populations, in the age of the vaccinated. we have a lot of people in this country who are vaccinated w
we had a lot lower levels of a year ago, and you have this combination that is putting the hospitals all around this country on the brink of overflowing. so, yeah, we are vaccinated throughout the older population, we have some immunity from prior infection, but all that is raised by the fact that we are taking care of so many other patients and the extravagant contagion of this variant means it finds everybody. so right now providing the top care that we are able to do becomes more and more difficult with each day. absolutely. can you draw any parallels to europe to see where this is going, because obviously it hit europe first, the 0micron wave, is there anything you can do to look across the pond and so we can look out for this all, you know. it look out for this all, you know - - look out for this all, you know. , , , . know. it is very difficult. in south know. it is very difficult. in south africa, know. it is very difficult. in south africa, for - know. it is very difficult
europe first. major indices are currently up slightly as you can see there. less than two hours in the trading session and the ftse 100 just over 1.3 of a percent. clawing back the dramatic losses we saw on thursday. investors probably not surprised by the sanctions. i ll talk about that in a minute with anna. u.s. futures, very different future on wall street. lingering in the negative territory. red arrows right across the board. in russia, meanwhile, the bench mark index has recovered some. the index closed down 33%. the moscow stock exchange has canceled today s morning session. as the kremlin unleashes its military might, russia is coming under a barrage of international economic sanctions. on thursday the e.u. slapped a new round of sanctions. they will have, quote, a maximum impact on russia s economy and