we don t have the updated vaccines we need for this particular sub variant. harris: why? it has been too delayed. production has been too delayed. when the drug companies told us we can reengineer it in 3 to 4 weeks? it is more like 5 to 6 months and no excuse. the money trail has dried up to some extent. we ll have next year better vaccines that work against more sub variants. in the meantime, this vaccine still decreases your risk of getting severely ill and it is very important. paxlovid is a big help. harris: dr. siegel to break it all down. we wish the leader of our country the very best health. the white house is dumping millions into a school lunch study on equity. critics say it is just more woke politics and a waste of our money. plus it looks like president biden is pushing away voters from his own party.
The Chinese mainland on Sunday reported around 600 new cases of COVID-19, marking the number as the highest daily tally in the month of July, as per the Nationa
worrying for employers with absences, for example in the nhs and social care. not necessarily so worrying for hospitals in terms of numbers of seriously ill people, because we know that omicron is milder when it comes to making people seriously ill. worrying in a different way for someone who has an underlying health condition, a compromised immune system, who is going to be cautious about coming out. there are groups that feel a bit left out of the debates and the fact that covid is spreading and writing quite fast is a worry. so, the numbers are up 29%, 3.5 million in the week to last weekend, up from 2.7 million. largely fuelled by these new sub variants of omicron which tend to spread more rapidly. if you look at the uk numbers, scotland has the highest case rate level. one in 16 had the virus, england one and 19, wales and
coming down, but it is very hard to predict, and i think these sub variants, experts are still looking at them to see whether there is an ongoing risk, but even if infections come down, if millions of people are getting the virus, there is always a risk of long covid for some, and in terms of hospitals you have nothing like the pressure that you had in the peak in 2021, because of the vaccine fewer people are getting seriously ill, and there are more drugs. but, it does create a bit more pressure during this heatwave, when ambulance services, hospitals are already very stretched. if you have people coming in with covid they have to be managed for infection control, so it does increase the pressure on the nhs in different ways.