there is a challenge there. and we take a lot of inspiration from the national weather service. if there is a storm coming, the national weather service does not say barometric pressure is dropping because as a regular person it s hard to know what to make of that. the weather service has invested a lot of research and development to trying different communication models. now they say things like small trees will be uprooted and debris could break windows. they ve done that deliberately. we plan to embark on that process as well to ensure that our communications are really meeting the moment and reaching people with the messages they need to hear. help me through that. what does that mean in terms of the language of covid that might change from our government or your forecasting center? we talked a lot when doing this, going up the case count. what do we do now? now we re in a much better place when we come down. hospitalizations again, way, way up if we go back in time, in a bette
the british chambers of commerce are calling for free or low cost covid 19 testing kits to be given to companies to help them cope with the large numbers of staff catching the virus. the business group says as many as three quarters of employers reported workers off sick with coronavirus in the last four weeks. covid cases peaked last month, with about 5 million people infected at the end of march. but now the onus is on companies to try to keep staff safe. our consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith reports from liverpool. business has been booming here for the last couple of years, with these home cooking spice kits taking off. but that means extra pressure for the boss to keep orders flowing while keeping staff safe. so there s 15 of us in total and a number of cases in the warehouse, enough for us to, as i said, shut down production for a week or two weeks. figures from the ons show that the omicron peak for factory floor workers was injanuary,
i take sort part in fact that united kingdom and den kmark is usually about two weeks ahead of us are seeing a decline many this omicron peak. hopefully that will be true here. it was story in south africa. this was last winter. last winter we didn t have a vaccine available. we didn t have nearly the level of population immunity as we have this year. this year probably is solid 80% of the population is protected against severe disease. i do think that in combination with the fact this is a winter virus and like all winter virus, it will start to fade as we move into early spring, i m optimistic it will get better. on the oh hand, i m a philadelphia ticket season holder so take that with a grain of salt. good to see you. thank you so much. now to another developing story. a space heater is being blamed for an apartment fire in new
vaccination, i would recommend strongly stay away from that this year. the government of south africath now says that pass through the omicron peak without a spike in deaths. that gives a lot of hope to a number of countries struggling with the very end. bret. steve, the fda has not made decision on the boosters for kids but there seems to be a disagreement betweenag dr. fauci and the world health organization on this. the who is clearly taking a shot at the us. the director pretty much cannot ands, said that rich countries like the us should not be giving boosters two children while in much of the world there are older people dying have never gotten a single shot may say not only is it unfair, but it will prolong the pandemic. of course speaking is a strong advocate of vaccines for children and we could see booster approval for 12-15 -year-olds as early as next week.ar
would recommend strongly stay away from that this year. the government of south africa now says it passed through the omicron peak without a spike in deathsna. certainly gives a lot of hope to a number of countries struggling with the variant. bret? bret: you know, steve, the fda has made a decision on these boosters. but for kids, for example, but it seems to be a disagreement between dr. fauci and the world health organization on this. bret, the w.h.o. is clearly taking a shot at the u.s. the director pretty much came out and said that the rich countries, like the u.s., should not be giving boosters to children while in much of the world there are older people dying who have never gotten a single shot. they say not only is it unfair but it will prolong the pandemic and, of course, fauci is a strong advocate of vaccines for children and we could see booster approval for 12 to 15-year-olds begin as early as next week. bret? bret: all right. steve harrigan in atlanta. steve, tha