derided as nothing more than cover for social spending. now, it s a $2.3 trillion plan dressed up as infrastructure with improvements to things like roads, highways, bridges. in fact the wall street journal says infrastructure like that accounts for a mere hundred $15 billion of this proposal after factoring and spending on air force, earmarked for transportation actually subsidies for green energy and payouts for unions, jobs climate regulation will kill. this is a plan to build government back bigger than has ever been, that is the view anyway. chances are, infrastructure where you are isn t really crumbling as mr. biden put it a couple of times today although yes, there are some places where it is troubled, no doubt about that. in 2019, the national bureau of economic research study offered by two academics from brown university and one from u penn noted that in fact most u.s. transportation infrastructure is not deteriorating. a careful examination of how spending is a
been reported in the last 2a hours and hospital admissions continue to hit record levels. but the prime minister said there was hope with more than 3.2 million people already vaccinated in the uk. our health editor, hugh pym, reports. this hospital was one of the first to fill up with seriously ill covid patients last march, now the same thing is happening again, only more so. like many other hospitals in south east england, northwick park is under severe strain. there are more patients now than there were in march, april and may, and if those numbers continue, it doesn t matter how good we are at looking after covid, we will run out of beds. because of pressure on london hospitals, some covid and other patients are set to be moved to this hospital in newcastle, which will also take patients from elsewhere in the north. nottingham hospitals are also ready to receive patients from southern england who need critical care. trust leaders say hospitals outside london have been ask
for three more weeks at least but children could return to schools there after the february half term. exhausted . the duchess of cambridge talks candidly about the challenges of both home schooling and home hairdressing her children. the rspb launches its big garden birdwatch where members of the public are asked to spend one hour counting and recording the birds they see from their home and coming up this hour: we ll meet a nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with covid 19 who has held her daughter for the first time after being discharged from hospital. good morning and welcome. a new coronavirus vaccine has been shown to be 89.3% effective in large scale uk trials. the novavax jab is the first to show it is effective against both the uk and south african variants of the virus, as you can see from this graph. the uk has secured 60 million doses of the jab, which will be made in stockton on tees. the doses are expected to be delivered in the