denmark as well. i don t think we can extrapolate from the south african experience to the uk here. it seems that the severity is a simple and not much lower. even if it was much lower, imagine we had omicron which was half as severe as delta, that advantage would have been lost in today s time because the doubling time was two days so you would end up with the same number of hospitalisations. ultimately, it s important to understand that the impact is determined by the sheer number of people impacted and infected rather than the individual severity in each person. this has the capacity to overwhelm hospitals regardless of severity because of the shear rate of growth we are seeing. so severity because of the shear rate of growth we are seeing.- severity because of the shear rate of growth we are seeing. so how can eole of growth we are seeing. so how can people protect of growth we are seeing. so how can people protect themselves? - of growth we are seeing. so how can people protect
said, it is not necessarily what is taking place inside the airport, it is getting the people to the airport. what sort of problems and challenges are there getting from kabul, the centre to the airport? what are the security issues? there are two. what are the security issues? there are two- one. what are the security issues? there are two. one, the what are the security issues? there are two. one, the most what are the security issues? there are two. one, the most obvious - what are the security issues? there are two. one, the most obvious is l are two. one, the most obvious is the taliban checkpoints. there are at least three levels of checkpoints for most people. the other is the sheer weight of traffic, the shear rate of people trying to get out and many of them simply do not have documentation. they are so desperate to get out they are just trying to get on a plane. there are many people in those crowds who have got invitation letters or the right to fly and they cannot get
less than one year ago on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s friday, december 23rd. i m deb feyerick an with alina cho on this american morning. good morning to all of you out in. so glad you re with us. up first, an early christmas present for 160 million americans. the house is expected to vote today on extending the payroll tax cut that divided washington for weeks. house republicans caved yesterday after a lot of arm-twisting by president obama who stead was the disgust of the american people that broke the log jam. boehner saying his side still wants a one-year extension but saw the political reality. we have fought the good fight. i talked to a number of members over the past 24 hours who believe that, hey, we don t like this two-month extension, we don t like this reporting problem in the senate bill, and if you can get this fixed, why not why not do the right thing for the american people, even though it s not e