and your colleague professor neil ferguson was signed l professor neil ferguson was signed this morningnow and we really do need the boosterjabs. it is that how you see equipment yeah, actually and i think particularly the most vulnerable population. we particularly the most vulnerable population-— particularly the most vulnerable --oulation. ~ . ., population. we have heard in the last few days _ population. we have heard in the last few days about _ population. we have heard in the last few days about even - population. we have heard in the last few days about even those . population. we have heard in the i last few days about even those that should have been having an additional primary booster weeks ago, people who have got leukaemia or are suffering from severe immune deficiencies are not actually coming forward or not being offered the vaccines anywhere near as effectively as we would want. and indeed also in the other age groups, we are very much behind the roll—out rate that we saw in the first and second dose. is rate that we saw in the first and second dose.— rate that we saw

professor neil ferguson says immunity is waning. 0ur health correspondentjim reed is here, and neil fergusoninfluential in convincing ministers to go ahead with the first lockdown last year. he has been speaking this morning about these third poster jabs for the over—50s, saying they need to be accelerated, and there is a good reason for that. if we look at this chart of daily cases across the uk, you can see on the right—hand side it has been rising across the uk, except really in scotland, a number of reasons for that, more mixing, particularly inside, we are still seeing the highest rates of infection in secondary school age children. and in england, there has been some criticism about the speed of the vaccine roll—out for that school age group. in the last hour or so, we have been told that rather than just giving jabs in school, children in england will soon be able to sign up as normal through the same online booking portal as adults, which is what some people had been calling for. that is already the case in scotland, and in the last couple of hours, they've issued new guidance for ma

here's professional near ferguson -- professor neil ferguson speaking about the consequences. >> haduced locked and measures earlier we would have reduced the death toll by at least half. >> the government delayed bringing in the first lockdown. the report says a cost lives. here is greg clark, the other committee chair behind today's findings. >> we thought there was widespread assumption that people would not obey lockdown measures for a long time. you had to delay imposing them until almost the last possible moment so they could have the longest ct. what we discovered in practice was people were perfectly prepared to follow instructions to stay-at-home because they realized the importance of it. >> the lockdown delay and many of the subsequent deaths were partly down to an underestimation of the british public, according to the report. it says the government's early actions amounted to herd immunity by infection, something the government always denied. here is a member of the u.k. government's scientific advisory committee speaking in a personal capacity. >> my understanding is th

so neil ferguson or scott atlas, and you have kind of a cadre saying we are not going to give an inche woke thing is sort of speaking, like peak woke now because of this continues it's not sustainable. you can't have an open border and you can't have race dominating every conversation. can't discriminate to stop this clinician and you can't practice racism. at the irony is that the french are mad at us and they are the ones who gave us -- and started it all off some way and postmodern madness. now we vomited back to them as we always do and they are very angry about it. >> greg: they are like we don't want this stuff. and we are like, you gave it to us. and they are like, whoa, dude. we are that french. cat, you went to college, right? 20 or 30 years ago? >> yes i did. >> greg: do you agree with the professor that we reached peak woke when you see professors taking a stance? >> the skull lady, i mean look. in our culture we are far too crude about human remains. i'm serious. see, listen. they are like you can't say human remains. all remains actually. i saw my dad this weekend, we wer

professor neil ferguson says immunity is waning. 0ur health correspondentjim reed is here, and neil fergusonniall ferguson is important because he and his team in imperial couege because he and his team in imperial college where one of the most influential groups of people at convincing the government back then and ministers to go ahead with that first lockdown. he has been talking in the media this morning about this third booster doses. this is the deal is for people of 50 years or over that should top up their immunity this winter. there has been some criticism that hasn't been ruled out according to some people as fast as it could have been. there is a good reason why people are concerned at the moment and we can show you this on some of these charts. we will start by looking at cases across the uk at the moment and you can see on the right—hand side of this graph we are going to look at, the cases have been rising. that is the average, 114,000. almost tipped over 50,000 yesterday, it will be worth watching what goes on today. that is the uk as a whole, in scotland it has been flat, risi

even the government's advisers, professor neil ferguson, in evidence to my committee said, if we hadearlier we might even have saved half the number of deaths in that initial wave. everyone accepts that we locked down too late. across 150 pages of the report, there is more criticism. it describes the roll—out of the test and trace programme in england as slow and chaotic. it says the uk did not impose rigorous border controls, letting in high numbers of infections from france and spain. it criticises the treatment of care homes, saying the risks were not recognised soon enough, leading to devastating and preventable repercussions. the report has actually picked up things we were saying from the outset, that social care was an afterthought. the mantra was nhs, we have to keep it safe. we understood some of that. what we did not know was the discharge out of hospitals was actually not through testing. they were not safe discharges. there was though praise for parts of the national response. the vaccine programme was described as one of the most effective initiatives in the history of u

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. —— neil ferguson said that. rest of the week, and tomorrow it will feel especially cold as we pick up will feel especially cold as we pick up and nagging northerly wind. it's all been about the southerlies and south—westerly through the first part of the week, look at that transition from amber to blue for thursday and friday. stormy times ahead across southern reaches of the uk into the small hours of thursday thanks to a storm affecting northern france, widespread gales, heavy rain, then weather six south across the uk and that's a marker for the colder air feeding the uk and that's a marker for the colder airfeeding down from the uk and that's a marker for the colder air feeding down from the north. and three thursday that northerly wind will be a well—established feature. any early cloud and rain to the south should clear it was there will be a lot of sunshine but some showers drifting into the far north and west. driven through on that gusty wind, gusts of wind across scotland, 40, may be close to 50 mph. t

professor neil ferguson was talking this morning about giving under 18 is two doses, because currentlyramme is advised to the uk, by thejoint vaccination programme is advised to the uk, by the joint committee for vaccinations and demonisation and they look at the whole thing the benefit to children when they go and make the recommendations, so there are a number of things we need to look at to improve vaccination uptake across different communities, but where children are concerned, thatis but where children are concerned, that is one for the committee. thank ou. the head of the european commission has told poland she will not allow the country to put european values at risk. ursula von de leyen was speaking at the eu parliament in strasbourg, which is debating the growing row between the two sides. brussels claims a new ruling by poland s constitutional tribunal undermines the european union s legal framework. warsaw says the eu has no right to tell it how to organize the judiciary — and it can ignorejudgements from the eu stop court. the former us president donald trump has filed a c

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