let's talk about this with martin mckee is a professor of european public health at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine. professor mckee, omicron is spreading fast with hardly any talk of severe disease or even death. the varian seems mercifully mild governments overreacting with re introducing strict measures. i don't think that they are on did certainly milder than they delta variant. but i wouldn't say that it's actually a disease that you can just dismiss as being trivial. we certainly are seeing quite a number of people being in the hospital not to anything like the same extent as before. also some worrying data from a number of countries that children are being admitted and some of them are getting seriously ill. but the other thing that we need to remember with this is that we've tended to think of this as a primarily research disease. and that of course has been a major part of the presentation. but this is of ours that can affect many different parts of the body and were particularly worried about the long term consequences. what we call long covert. we still d

i put that question to martin mckee, who's professor of european public health at the london school of hygiene and tropical met. well, i'm not sure city coupling. what we are seeing is that the risk of hospitalization is much lower than it was without earlier variance. but we are seeing that as cases are going up, hospitalizations are going up, albeit not to lot, not to the same extent. i think what we've seen with success of variance is that they're changing in terms of their transmits ability, but they're also changing in terms of the pattern of disease that they're causing. and there's no doubt that oma chrome is causing less severe lung disease. although there are still some concerns about his impact and other body systems, but it is good news compared to what it could have thing. and so the arguments will, will be hard in capitals around the world as certainly are around europe. so was this about army crime? was this about government actions? was this about government over reactions or was this about vaccinations? what's what you're taking this this, this machine with so many movi

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