she's a clinical epidemiologist and also a senior electro queen mary university of london. she joins us from cambridge deep based on our previous conversations. i'm guessing that you're not going to be celebrating with a lot of the country today. no, i mean, i'm not sure a lot of the country celebration either. i think many, many people are worried about opening up in the middle of what's of aging pandemic, which is already leading to the pressure on hospital leading them to cancel routine care routine appointments for many. so i think i don't believe that this isn't just the pro and non ethical one that will be 2 millions of infections in the coming weeks and hundreds of thousands of people suffering. the consequences of long cool, which from that do you or what she needs pictures of people gathering and clubs, and oldest confetti i. this is all happening amidst this real chorus of criticism from health and signtext. but like yourself, i'm curious to you right now feeling like you're being heard by the government when it comes to policy. no, absolutely not. i mean, i don't

of european studies at london school of economics. also in london, we have donald soon. he has ameritas professor of comparative european history at queen mary university of london. and in syracuse we cross glenn morgan, he is a professor in the political science department at maxwell school at syracuse university. alright, gentle.

of european studies at london school of economics. also in london, we have donald soon. he has ameritas professor of comparative european history at queen mary university of london. and in syracuse, we cross at glen morgan. he is a professor in the political science department at maxwell school at syracuse university. alright gentlemen, cross girls and effects. that means you can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate me go to alan 1st in london. the so any prime minister recently condemned the eas, western states for imposing, quote, imaginary european values without respecting local cultures. how do you react to that? because we had a letter come out with 16 major figures representing parties all across the the block. very agitated and pushing back against what they think is brussel brussels intruding upon their local affairs. how do you react to what the us will be in prime minister? how to say? well, it doesn't cover any surprise because there's a great divide in europe in your opinion. just matters of culture, particularly. ready all gay culture and base other things casting culture the big protection of the catholic church and cohen. r

we'll get to go to sunny is a clinical epidemiologist on a senior lecture at queen mary university of london. she says, plans to ease restrictions could undo the hard one progress. opening up in the middle of a raging band to make with exponentials rises, my cases are doubling every 9 days is completely negligent. i own how the secretary has said that we are going to see more than 800000 daily cases over the summer. and lessons, something like that ripped through the population when only 51 percent of our population fully vaccinated is completely reckless and will have long term impact on people's health. our health care services moving forward, giving that the major groups that are being impacted. now, young adults and children where cases are literally skyrocketing and we know that this isn't an acute enough for many people as a chronic unless i need to chronic disability in many. and we are creating a generation possibly of children and young adults with chronic illness. and disabilities for the future. actually, studies from the university of cambridge showed her the best conditions for

she's a clinical epidemiologist, the senior lecture at queen mary university of london and jones is not by skype from london gets heavy with his own you sir, it's delta variance of the crew and vars clearly a worry, but we do have vac scenes. no. so how effective are those vaccines against this particular variance? so there's no doubt that there is a level of escape with the does have a and that means that there is, there is a level of reduction in protective immunity with this particular band, even with vaccines. the good news is that with 2 doors of vaccine, that is still of a high level of protection for individuals against severe disease like hospitalized ations and deaths. but protection against infection and transmission may be much lower as we hear him from recent reports from israel, which might explain the sort of searches we are seeing in places like israel and the u. k. where, you know, 50 to 60 percent of the population are fully vaccinated and that has important implications for reaching heard immunity, which means reaching a level where the pad that may start drinking by i

well, don't talk to dp good sunny as a clinical epidemiologist and senior lecture at queen mary university of london. she says vaccines can still provide a level of protection against the delta variance. although there is a level of evasion. again, you know, protection again, getting that of miles isn't that it does tend to protect against severe disease. if you've taken 2 doses, which is very good, it means that the people who take into those are less likely to get hospitalized and die. but it does mean that in unity is likely to wayne fosters particularly people older and more wonderful who tend to mount lord immune responses to begin with are likely to be protected for a period of time. i need to do this and also means that might have a lot impact on threats to people might, will, vaccinate. it might still be able to get infected and be able to spread the video. and so i think all the tells us that this is not a wireless that we can live with. i mean, we are seeing this virus evolve and the to a new how do you transform surveyed every few months then which then takes over across the world and lea

they've to go to san a is a clinical epidemiologist in thing electra at queen mary university of london. she says, plans to ease restrictions could undo hard one progress. opening up in the middle of a raging pandemic with exponentials rises my cases a doubling every 9 days is completely negligent. i own how the secretary has said that we are going to see more than 100000 daily cases over the summer. and lessons, something like that ripped through the population when only 51 percent of our population fully vaccinated is completely reckless and will have long term impact on people's how our health care services moving forward. giving that the major groups that are being impacted. now, young adults and children where cases are literally skyrocketing and we know that this isn't an acute net for many people as a chronic unless i need to chronic. we're coming in to go live now to these pictures. of course that much anticipated flight virgin galactic flight subaltern sub whole flight with richard branson on board. these live pictures you can see that now the space claim, the white night aircr

without end. jona whole al jazeera london, very pleased to welcome dr. dp, good us on the to out of the are now clinical epidemiologist and the scene electric queen mary university of london and scott from cambridge, did they talk to thanks for your time? i o miss. don't know where to start with this. listening to that report, listening to all the symptoms, all these issues which people go through, you can take notes that and i'm getting the feeling, it's almost like cove itself and that it'll affect people differently. and it can keep changing over time. yes, i mean a lot of people initially compared to stars, could we to call it with flu and it's nothing like the flu. we know now that this is not just an acute disease. it's a chronic disease for many people and it's a disease that doesn't just affect your last 8 effect, almost every organ in your body. and we know that long with a common, we know that one and 5 people who get infected even with mild infection, go on and not just in symptoms for 5 weeks or more. and one in 10 go on and develop them 2 to 12 weeks or more. and this is not trivial among those. in fact, among those affected to in the you keep for e

of hope in an ordeal. so far without end jona whole al jazeera london dr. dp, good us on a as a clinical epidemiologist, the senior lecturer at queen mary university of london. she says covert symptoms can linger in patient for up to a year. a lot of people initially compared, sorry, can we to call it a few and it's nothing like the flu. we know now that this is not just an acute disease. it's a chronic disease for many people and it's a disease that doesn't just affect your love. it affects almost every organ in your body, and we know that long call it is common. we know that one and 5 people who get infected even with mild infection, go on and develop a list of symptoms for 5 weeks or more. and one in 10 go on and develop symptoms for 12 weeks or more. and this is not trivial among those. in fact, among those affected to in the you keep for example, we currently have 1000000 people living with long cool that and to report problems with day to day activity and 400000 have had them just more than a year or so for many it was just more than 6 months more than a year and really impacted each day life. there's more and more evidence that this is a vi

she's a clinical epidemiologist and senior lecture at queen mary university of london. she's joining us via skype from cambridge. thank you very much for being with us. what is also concerning here, i guess is that the case and actually officially opening up until july 19th and we're already seeing the our rates go up the transmission rate. the delta vary and spreading, as you heard that from sonya is the u. k. d restricting too much, too soon, in your opinion. when opening up in the middle of a raging fat to make with exponentials rises my cases a doubling every 9 days is completely negligent. i own how the secretary has said that we are going to see more than 100000 daily cases over the summer and lessons, something like that ripped through the population when only 51 percent of our population 40 vaccinated is completely reckless and will have long term impact on people's health, our health care services moving forward, giving that the major groups that are being back to now young adults and children where cases are literally skyrocketing and we know that this isn't a

she's a clinical epidemiologist and senior lecturer at queen mary university of london. jones is by skype from cambridge to happy withers. i'm old enough to remember when the british variances cause and panic or the alpha variance is it's now known as just explained says, why is the delta variance so much worse? so the death in his honey transmissible in about within 40 to 60 percent more transmissible than the alpha lead into which we already know what more transmissible in the original radius. so in total, this lady is about 2 times more transmissible than our regional gradient, which makes it very easily spreadable through the air. the 2nd thing is that it is more able to escape vaccines that will be directed against the original radius. and there is a significant degree of escape the after one back seen, but less so off to to those is that that has important impact at immunity at population level. 3rd, people already mentioned, we think it's more and more likely to go off that location than these studies. and some regions also suggest just that it's more likely was d

journalists are fall deep to good us on a is a clinical epidemiologist and a senior electra queen mary university of london. she said lifting restrictions in england could lead to more mutations that can be even more dangerous. this is not a wireless that we can live with. i mean, we are seeing this virus evolve and the to a new how do you transfer me to believe every few months then which then takes over across the world and leads to another search. the only way to prevent this sort of bias that, that patient and protect our precious vaccine resources is to prevent transmission . and that's not just in the regional level. but in a global level, we know that many countries don't have adequate access to vaccines. it will be a long time, perhaps even one or 2 years before everyone is vaccinated. and in that period of time, if we allow transmission to continue at high levels, we will see many, many more new radians. and one could potentially escape vaccines more 40, which could have implications for the band to me across the globe. so i think countries who think carefully about not just, you know, vaccination

i'm joined now by dr deepti gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist at queen mary university of london. news. can i ask you what you make of in the light of these numbers now, of the decision to subject to the reevaluation on monday statistics, and all likelihood to go ahead with lifting restrictions?— likelihood to go ahead with lifting restrictions? �* ., ., ,, ., restrictions? before i address that i want to address _ restrictions? before i address that i want to address the _ restrictions? before i address that i want to address the piece - restrictions? before i address that i want to address the piece of - i want to address the piece of misinformation that came out before you started interviewing me that says the impact of coronavirus on children is not severe. while the risk of death might be quite low, the risk of lung covid is quite high and i want to say we have 33,000 children are suffering with long covid including 9000 who had symptoms of more than a year. that is far more severe and i think the bbc should do more to report this more accurately. but i will get to the questi

i'm joined now by dr deepti gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist at queen mary university of london. nd that should come clear in the next few days to weeks because essentially we usually see a decline in hospitalisation after a decline in cases after about ten days. if we see that, we can be clear that the trend is real. the office for national statistics last week up to the 17th ofjuly told us that until then we know that cases are rising as a national service which does not depend on people coming forward. the trains are not clear. if the trend is real, it could be because of multiple factors, schools closed recently but the trend started before them but we know many children were off school because of isolation, over1 million children and that could be linked, and hot weather, more activity outdoors. it does not seem to be an impact of less activity, because there is a trend of increasing mobility, that does not tell us where the activity is happening, but if it is outdoors it is a lower risk, and the end of the euro 2020, it led to a spike in england in young men, but it is unlik

suggests skipping one mammogram can increase the risk of breast cancer sharply a study out of queen mary university in londonallon central hospital in sweden looked at more than 550,000 women. some women didn't miss any exams, and some missed one of two previous screenings. the risk for fatal cancer 10 years later was 50% lower for those who didn't miss any exams. the study was published in the journal radiology, gas prices went up two cents over the past two weeks. the average price for a gallon here in the u. s is now $3.22. that's 98 cents higher than it was a year ago. gases most expensive in the bay area at $4.39 a gallon, the lowest averages in baton rouge, louisiana, at $2.71 a gallon. industry analyst the lundberg survey says an abundant oil supply should keep gas prices from spiking the oakland asian cultural center held a soft reopening today. the in person event was titled food line, mapping our diaspora from culture to conversation. the program included a screening of the food documentary bloodline, followed by a discussion with bay area chefs. the center was founded in 1984. it works to build co

hashem who is the campaign lead at action on sugar and is a nutrition researcher at queen mary university of londonvery little reformulation and that is because the programme is voluntary, it is the countries that want to be progressive —— companies that want to be progressive and it was in the right thing, but they sit in a competitive market. if they want to be reformulating, their competitors that need to be forced to do the same thing and a system like this, a tax, will level the playing field and get all the companies to abide by that similar rules and all will have to reformulate and if they do not, they will be subject to this tax. so even though we have had a reformulation programme for salt and sugar, for sugar it has been only a reduction of 3%, despite it needing to get to 20% by the end of last year actually, and for the salt reduction programme, we had really great success in the first few years of it, but actually it has stalled for the last ten years and at the success has been quite poor, there has not been much success and progress has been quite poor and do so again we need anothe

suggests skipping one mammogram can increase the risk of breast cancer sharply a study out of queen mary university. in londonallon central hospital in sweden looked at more than 550,000 women. some women didn't miss any exams, and some missed one of two previous screenings. the risk for fatal cancer 10 years later was 50% lower for those who didn't miss any exams. this study was published in the journal radiology. well warning for anyone with an iphone ipad or mac laptop. cyber experts have discovered that those devices are vulnerable to hack attacks when you are using a public wifi spot reporter heather sullivan has more on how to protect your device. pegasus spyware has evolved from what's called spear. phishing attacks where you might click on a malicious link in an email to now, what's called zero click attacks, which means they get access to your phone without you're doing a thing. they found that if someone changed the name of a wifi. hotspots so any kind of, uh, wifi hot spot to include a bunch of percent signs and letters that it would completely disable the wifi on that phone. it's called a zero cli

of our thinking for the future. and there is marie, is an associate professor and physical geography at university college london. she's researching the environmental impact of rocket launches. there's a lot that we know about buckets and the potential impact that they can have in the environment. we know in general about the kinds of fuels that the major players in the space tourism industry are using. we know when these fuel burn, what kind of chemicals they produce, these kinds of chemicals can contribute to changes in climate. they can also de pete, the ozone layer that protects us from harmful you'd be radiation. but an important component that we don't know enough about is how large the space tourism industry is going to be in the future. and that kind of information we need to be able to do robust environmental impact assessment per passenger. the release of air pollutants or chemicals in general is considerably higher sometimes orders of magnitude more than is released from say, a long whole flight. so when the demand grows, the demand doesn't need to have to grow that much to start to have an impact wheth