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of the world s richest lottery draw, el gordo, or the fat one . welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. we start here in the uk, which has recorded 100,000 daily new cases of the coronavirus for the first time since the pandemic began. the sudden rise in infections has been caused by the 0micron variant, which is known to be highly transmissible. but there s also some optimism as preliminary studies published in the uk and south africa suggest 0micron could present with milder symptoms than other variants. 0ur medical editor fergus walsh has this report. another record day for covid cases and for booster jabs. but as the 0micron wave surges, at last some positive early evidence from three separate studies, all indicating it poses less of a threat than the delta variant. research by imperial college london found around a 40% reduction in the risk of being admitted to hospitalfor a night or more compared to delta. a scottish study suggested there w ....
reporter: the vice president said in recent days that that you didn t see delta coming. you didn t see omicron coming. how did you get it wrong? how d we get it wrong? nobody saw it coming. nobody in the whole world. who saw it coming? did the administration not expect that there could be moments like this one where you d have a highly transmissible variant? sure. it was possible. it was possible there could be other variants that come along. that s possible. but what do you plan for? you plan for what you think is available. that is, the most likely threat that s exists at the time and you respond to it. and i think that that s exactly what we ve done and that s for example, omicron is spreading rapidly. but the death rates are much, much lower than they were. this this is not march of 2020. this is a very different time. that we re in now. the new comments from the president they come on a day like every other day this week that have seen major dev ....
just a short time ago president biden spoke at length about criticism of his administration s fight against covid, and specifically about what vice president harris said in a recent interview that the administration didn t see the omicron variant coming. here is the exchange with abc s david muir. reporter: the vice president said in recent days that that you didn t see delta coming. you didn t see omicron coming. how did you get it wrong? how d we get it wrong? nobody saw it coming. nobody in the whole world. who saw it coming? did the administration not expect that there could be moments like this one where you d have a highly transmissible variant? sure. it was possible. it was possible there could be other variants that come along. that s possible. but what do you plan for? you plan for what you think is available. that is, the most likely threat that s exists at the time and you respond to it. and i think that that s exactly what we ve done and that s ....