if you were unvaccinated, and about a 20 times likelihood that you would be dead if you were unvaccinated. so when you look at every parameter ten times, 17 times, 20 times infection, hospitalisation, death. earlier i spoke to dr adam brown, from envision health care, to get a clearer picture of what the situation is for hospitals in the us right now. it s a pretty grim picture. we re seeing a record number of cases across the united states more so on the east coast in some of our larger population centres, like out in california and chicago. and from a hospital standpoint, we re also seeing a record number of hospitalisations not only with adults, but also with paediatric patience. and that s on top of what we were seeing, of course, in the normal state of affairs during january, just after the holidays in our hospitals. this is a pretty grim, frustrating situation for our health care workers and our patients, as well.
day one of operation desert storm to force the iraqis out of kuwait has seen the most intense air attacks since the second world war. tobacco is america s oldest industry, and it s one of its biggest. but the industry is nervous of this report this may tend to make people want to stop smoking cigarettes. there is not a street that is unaffected. huge parts of kobe were simply demolished as buildings crashed into one another. this woman said she d been given no help and no advice by the authorities. she stood outside the ruins of her business. tens of thousands of black. children in south africa have taken advantage of laws passed by the country s new multiracial government - and enrolled at formerly white schools. tonight see the 9,610th performance of the long running play, the mousetrap. when they heard of her death today, the management considered whether to cancel tonight s performance, but agatha christie would ve been the last person to want such a thing.
organization said it expects more than half the people there will be infected in the next 6 8 weeks with france, italy, and turkey reporting new pandemic highs. if we take a closer look at the us, we ll see cases there have soared over the past few weeks to an average of 737,000 per day. the number of americans in hospital with covid is over 142,000 it s never been higher, and it s increased 83% in the last two weeks. the us chief medical adviser, anthony fauci, has been giving evidence to a congressional commitee on the current state of play. here s his repsonse to a question on the importance of vaccinations. if you look at vaccinated versus unvaccinated, there s about a ten times greater chance that you to be infected if you were unvaccinated, about a 17 times greater chance that you d be hospitalised
17 times, 20 times infection, hospitalisation, death. that is a pretty stark message, isn t it? that s the picture for you in the us. meanwhile, italy has reported more than 220,000 new covid infections that s more than double the number on monday. the who director for europe says more than half the continent s population will catch covid in the next two months if infections continue at the current rate. experts say vaccines still provide good protection against omicron, but because of the unprecedented scale of transmission, we re now seeing rising covid i9 hospitalisations across europe. at this rate, the institute for health metrics and evaluation forecasts that more than 50% of the population in the region will be infected with omicron in the next six to eight weeks. data collated in recent weeks confirms that omicron is highly transmissible, because