test their way out of self preservation if they come into contact with someone who has tested positive for the omicron variant. that also will not encounter much resistance. then there will be the vote on the covid passport. there will be resistance to that, we think from around 60 conservative mps, a big rebellion, no doubt about it. it means the government will be reliant on labour votes to get that through, but there will be those labour votes and a real world terms these measures will come into place, and in political terms governments hate relying on the opposition to get their business through because it makes them look feeble. there will be a fourth vote, unconnected to plan b and they went to plan, around the idea of making it mandatory for front line nhs staff in england to be vaccinated. i am told i understand this evening that labour will also back the government on that. they had previously been
that also will not encounter much resistance. then there will be the vote on the covid passports and there will be resistance to that, we think from around 60 conservative mps. that is a big rebellion, there is no doubt about it, it will mean the government is reliant on labour. get that bit through, but there will be those labour votes. in real world terms, these measures will come into place, in political terms, governments hate having to rely on the opposition to get their business through because it makes them look feeble. 0ne through because it makes them look feeble. one other thing, there will actually be a fourth vote unconnected to the whole question of plan b and the winter plan around the idea of making it mandatory for front line nhs staff in england to be vaccinated. i am told, i understand this evening, labour will also back the government on that. they had previously been posted but they were now back the government on that so irrespective of any conservative rebellion o
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we still need to be prepared for a range of different eventualities which might include a big covid wave, but it might also mean that we still need to do whatever we can do to keep surgery going, so that patients who need urgent cancer care, for example, are still guessing that, and that is really the challenge, it s the uncertainty. the nhs needs to be as agile and as flexible as possible and i think it has been the most agile and flexible it has been in the last two years than i can ever remember, but still the challenges come. what proportion of the patients who are in icu at the moment are with covid, or the effects of covid, how many are vaccinated as opposed to unvaccinated? well, i can only tell you in my experience of where i work, it is about 20% or so, one in five patients who are vaccinated. what is notable at the bedside is they seem to be less ill, they do not seem to need a ventilator
who have had one or two doses of the vaccine, it means we have millions more people who are getting infections with m stick my omicron who would not with delta and if you have high enough numbers, you will have high enough numbers, you will have enough people who need hospital treatment to put severe pressure on health services and because it is so much more transmissible than delta, yourinner much more transmissible than delta, your inner situation where even if your inner situation where even if you do not get that sick, you can potentially infect people who will get really sick. i think as a nation, we want to protect the nhs stop it is already exhausted after nearly two years of this pandemic, they are already under severe pressure and any extra pressure from covid reduces services for everybody, and we do not want to be in a situation where you can t get sick in winter, so i think from just a community point of view, we want to reduce infection. i m joined by professor rupert pear