welcome back. as we mentioned earlier the science behind omicron is evolving almost as fast as the variant. though data suggests fully vaccinated and boosted are fairly well protected, omicron still poses a big threat to society. ed young points out in his latest for the atlantic t collective threat is substantially greater than the individual one. and the u.s. is not ready to meet it. i know lot of folks are taking some comfort that omicron appears to be less severe. but are raw numbers, if we re about to essentially infect everybody that hasn t been boosted and unvaccinated, umm, what is that going to mean even though the higher percentage will be by percentage, the
islam, bbc news, in cardiff. janet mui is investment director at the wealth managers brewin dolphin here in london. what are you expecting to hear today? good morning, victoria, thanks for having me. we are not expecting the bank of england to raise interest rates today, primarily because of the omicron uncertainty. so basically inflation is at a decade high and the labour market is pretty strong, so it is not because of omicron, we would look at them planning to raise interest rates, but because of omicron i think they have to busche back until sometime next year instead. the bank of england has often adopted this sort of wait and see approach, but what was often described as transitory inflation is clearly not going away. is there another way to deal with inflation without killing companies struggling with staff shortages as a result of omicron and also supply chain problems that happening globally? it
democratic governments that trump won in 2016. we have to do that. governor roy cooper. chairman of the democratic governor association. and chair this year because he s not up. north carolina race is always up in the presidential year. thanks for coming on and sharing your perspective. thanks chuck. appreciate it. coming up, dr. fauci is warnings things could get really bad. the latest on omicron. and ahead the nation s highest military honor is about to be bestowed on three u.s. soldiers. two who gave their lives for this country. the ceremony is about to begin at the white house. begin at the white house o man, that s a whole lot of wrinkly at least my shoes look good! looking good start with bounce wrinkleguard, the megasheet designed to prevent wrinkles in the dryer. it s our holiday savings event on the sleep number 360 smart bed. what if i sleep hot? .or cold? no problem, the sleep number 360 smart bed is temperature balancing
more variants in the next six months? the virus is going to continue to mutate. and i think people have assumed that we were going to see a mutant that allowed it to get around immunity from prior infection and from vaccination. and omicron seems to be the first one to be able to do that efficiently. maybe now the other descendants will be from omicron. we know there are four other coronaviruses that cause 5% of our common colds and omicron is going to join the other four. and the fact is it is still able to kill at a rate much higher than other coronaviruses because so many people not vaccinated. the best thing is so get more people vaccinated. what s your advice to people traveling this year. it is not the actual travel, sitting on an airplane that gets you infected. it is what you do afterwards. if you are fully vaccinated i think you can be assured you are not going to get severe disease. if you are unvaccinated you are
democrats move on to working on voting rights legislation this year and put off the build back better plan till 2022. if we can get congressional votes done we should do it. if we can t, we got to keep going. there is nothing domestically more important than voting rights. it looks like it is going to be a very long, cold winter for the white house given all the omicron uncertainty as the variant spreads like wild fire. when it comes to grading this administration s first year its had a lot on its plate but biden set the bar pretty high. he ran on defeating covid, rebuilding america, restoring our democracy and getting rid of trump. he s had big successes. the covid relief bill.