makes plain from an early stage asked nhs england to consider what could be done and you asked simon stephensuidance injune and the announcement injuly about the national announcement in july about the national institute for health research and uk research and innovation and also your convening of a round table injuly, it appears very clear that you were alive to the concerns about long—term consequences from the infection? i was alive to it from before the infection reached our shores. chris whitty raised the concern about the potential of some kind of fatigue syndrome which happens with other viruses as well. and then, after the first pic i was acutely aware of it not least because members of my family were affected by long covid including my mother who still attends a clinic so this was very close to my heart. to attends a clinic so this was very close to my heart.— attends a clinic so this was very close to my heart. to what extent when ou close to my heart. to what extent when you and _ close to my heart. to what extent when you and your _ close to my heart. to what extent when you and y

many different ways, they found that long tarmac difficult to categorise at first and so with simon stephensl work together to bring forward clinics that could look across the range of conditions that are mostly gathered under the term long covid. i cared a lot about this for personal reasons as well as professional. we did not need to sign off from the centre, we just got on with it. do you happen to know, notwithstanding the early days of 2020, the campaign about long covid wasn't launched until october, do you know why there was that potential lag in the communication side of the debate?— side of the debate? yes, i think it was essentially _ side of the debate? yes, i think it was essentially bleak, _ was essentially bleak, understandably the clinicians found it hard to get a handle on exactly what the term meant a first. i knew what the term meant a first. i knew what it meant and those suffering from it knew what it meant. but turning that into a formal protocol would normally have taken a lot longer, but it was one of those things that happened, some months for the clinicians to put it

>> that judgment my coauthor stephen simon has already raised a lot of controversy. 15,000 palestinians dead. gaza as a humanitarian catastrophe. how can you give the president high marks given vote realities. given who joe biden is, given the terrorist surge in october 7th. given the fact that without bidens intersection you would've had no hostages returned. without biden's intersection there would've been no aid getting into southern gaza. without bidens intersection i suspect having dissuaded the israelis from preempting in the early days of this conflict against hezbollah and lebanon, they could've triggered a broader war. i think the president, on balance, all of the constraints is doing about all he can do. he is not going to be able, unless he is prepared to shank shun the israelis, not just advise and impose consequences on them. but if he sales to he the menstruation's warning on minimizing civilian deaths, he was not prepared to do that. he is not going to dissuade these rallies from their objectives giving the trauma they've been through. i do not believe, frankly, whether i

simon. in newport. who says simply stephen, are you okay? yes. thank you. yes i'm doing all right.d. nice to be back. >> good. and you've got yourself a cup of tea now, have you? >> i have got myself a cup of tea terms of what anyone tea in terms of what anyone needs to do to win your vote at the next election. alan says inheritance affect inheritance tax doesn't affect the majority of people, so why is priority for the is it such a priority for the government to sort of rid of government to sort of get rid of it, seems to be what's it, which seems to be what's being moment? being indicated at the moment? um, doesn't affect that um, and it doesn't affect that many people a but with many people in a way. but with house prices in the south, particularly , it's affecting particularly, it's affecting more it ever has before. >> yeah, i think i was reading this morning. >> 4% of people. it >> it's about 4% of people. it only affects about of people only affects about 4% of people at but of course at the moment. but of course with house prices will affect with house prices it will affect

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