Covid-19: WHO chief optimistic disease will be beaten in 2022 https://t.co/gidEJI6tf8

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 31, 2021

UK passes record number of daily Covid cases for third day in rowhttps://t.co/fI5waDFQ8r

— ITV News (@itvnews) December 30, 2021

Suddenly the summary covid data is much more up to date, and we get the first hint of the horror spike in hospital admissions… pic.twitter.com/uiInk5LTeQ

— Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 (@uk_domain_names) December 31, 2021

If anyone says the UK’s 332 reported Covid deaths today are due to the Omicron surge*, that’s a useful sign that you can ignore anything else they say about Covid, ever.

*They’re not, they’re due to a big reporting backlog over Christmas. No rise in deaths by date of death.

— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) December 30, 2021

THREAD on England & Omicron and what is going on.

My take on it.

TLDR: things are pretty bad and I'm sad & bewildered at lack of govt action and general levels of hopium. 1/18

— Prof. Christina Pagel (@chrischirp) December 30, 2021

New York City is preparing to revive its annual New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square. The city has said it will limit the number of in-person spectators to 15,000, fewer than the tens of thousands who typically gather, amid surging COVID-19 cases. https://t.co/jYL4jSP3RO

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 31, 2021

New York broke through its largest single-day Covid record yesterday as NYC prepares for its annual New Year's Eve celebration. Times Square Alliance President Tom Harris joins us to discuss how the party will be scaled back this year. https://t.co/BFmoUwxAHE pic.twitter.com/ilEy2GuPoi

— CNBC (@CNBC) December 31, 2021

The fact that Florida has reported a 1,000% increase in Covid cases over the last two weeks and yet there’s still not a single state sponsored testing facility should really be a much bigger story.

— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) December 30, 2021

Last French Covid Thread of 2021

I spoke last week of a very big Omicron wave about to crash onto France. That wave is upon us. There have been over 200,000 new cases in each of the last two days, bringing the 7-day average to 121,566, up more than 125% in a week. 1/15

— John Lichfield (@john_lichfield) December 31, 2021

Omicron: Third wave looms as India Covid cases spike https://t.co/6LtS6AWnVJ

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 31, 2021

South Africa said a wave of Covid-19 caused by Omicron is in retreat, a promising sign for other countries facing their own bursts of infections https://t.co/sSlxlCjtNW

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) December 31, 2021

Covid: UK 'better placed' this new year and South Africa says Omicron wave may have peaked https://t.co/Kos4yTLqYG

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 31, 2021

This week, we were able to estimate vaccine effectiveness (VE) against hospitalisation for the first time. In short, good news. VE after a booster is close to 90%. The full update from our team is published in this week's technical briefing update:https://t.co/MHSSiPvdqk

1/10

— Freja Kirsebom (@freja_kirsebom) December 31, 2021

Aviation is not in an "incomparably better" position https://t.co/w2F6lsoj38. It's vital the Government recognises this. We’ve coped with rule changes, blows to confidence and have continued vital supply chain work in the fight against COVID. But we're running on empty. 1/2

— BALPA (@BALPApilots) December 31, 2021

Wildfires pushed by high winds in Colorado swept through suburban areas near Denver on Thursday, burning at least 500 homes and forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee. Here’s what we know: https://t.co/0DoYbivQpz

— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 31, 2021

Airline passenger aboard flight from Denver captures bird’s-eye view of wildfire burning in Boulder County, Colorado.

Gov. Jared Polis has declared a state of emergency. https://t.co/nnhyaX6W4B pic.twitter.com/u05F5URSCG

— ABC News (@ABC) December 31, 2021

"It felt like the apocalypse." Tens of thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes in Colorado as fast-moving wildfires turned the sky into an ashy orange. More than 500 homes were burned. Follow for updates: https://t.co/4mlOP6Bn4V

— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 31, 2021

Colorado medical staff in the thick of fighting a pandemic surge watch a December wildfire burn their community to the ground…

Here’s how you can help: https://t.co/bcKZHV5Dm5 pic.twitter.com/dc29rXgepg

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 31, 2021

His lawyers may have told him to come out and condemn it…he recently went pro vaccine, no doubt in an effort to try to minimize his potential legal liabilities

— James King (@KingJamies) December 31, 2021

.@AriMelber: Steve Bannon is indicted and awaiting trial for hiding evidence about Jan. 6. Now, one of his accomplices, Peter Navarro, has leaked information detailing the plan to rally Republicans to interfere with certifying President Biden’s win. https://t.co/8BjoxoEVTg

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) December 31, 2021

#19 – Sarah Palin said it would be “over my dead body” before she got a covid vaccine. pic.twitter.com/4R9xwMAjT0

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 31, 2021

<GAME THEORY>
So Trump kept *re-recording* his video to domestic terrorists on Jan 6.

Bottom line up front? I believe he was waiting to hear if Pence and/or Pelosi was dead – specifically so he could blame Antifa.

A whistleblower gave us a big clue. https://t.co/8BrkMXX5Gt

— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) December 27, 2021

MSNBC legal contributors @BarbMcQuade and @JoyceWhiteVance join @CapehartJ to discuss why the Jan. 6 committee is within the scope of their investigation to make a criminal referral against Donald Trump. https://t.co/dRFaVpQJGi pic.twitter.com/2Dkqdas3gy

— The Last Word (@TheLastWord) December 31, 2021

Brexit checks start tomorrow as firms fear red tape and 'food rotting at ports' – Imposed by the Tories. It didn’t have to be this way https://t.co/ZUj5r5lezE

— Graham Simpson (@grahambsi) December 31, 2021

Brexit promises that have turned to shit: Volume 7, part 463c: pic.twitter.com/vxyl4tIPOo

— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) December 30, 2021

UK companies face New Year Brexit import controls https://t.co/YWyw6RZ4CT pic.twitter.com/h43RUkDxDs

— Reuters (@Reuters) December 31, 2021

This is stupid, ludicrous, absurd, ridiculous, hubristic, sad, deluded – everything that goes to make up Brexit, which the Spectator preached, defended and now observes like a cult long after every fact and reality shows it be an error of catastrophic proportions https://t.co/4wVeNoSLgN

— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) December 31, 2021

I'm tired of it all. Lies. Scandals. Incompetence. Dodgy contracts. Dogwhistle politics. One rule for them/us. Contorted justifications for Brexit. Contempt for voters. Insincere paeans to NHS, teachers etc. Tuning out today, wishing all Happy New Year, and for change in 2022.

— alexandra hall hall (@alexhallhall) December 31, 2021

2021 ends with soaring Omicron cases
2022 will in part be marked by soaring energy prices and spiralling cost of living expenses

Time we had each other’s backs. Time we elect better leaders.
Time for change

— Philip McGowan (@pipmcgowan) December 31, 2021

UPDATE: Anger at reports Boris Johnson will be cleared by Lord Geidt of breaching the ministerial code over the donation for the Downing St flat refurbishment.

I explain why this should end Johnson’s premiership and should send the country into uproar pic.twitter.com/ARIEI0qTE2

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) December 31, 2021

Prince Andrew must be hoping establishment crony Lord Geidt is now asked to investigate him https://t.co/Ny94ZKpkI6

— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) December 31, 2021

Surely time for Prince Andrew to do another Newsnight interview and clear this whole thing up

— Frankie Boyle (@frankieboyle) December 30, 2021

Prince Andrew asked to prove his inability to sweat by Virginia Giuffre’s lawyers | News | The Times https://t.co/XcEfPRF6dF

— Patricia Devlin (@trishdevlin) December 31, 2021

I wrote a sketch for Spitting Image (not used) in which Andrew used a puppet of himself to touch up women and then blamed and admonished Little Andrew. I think this was based on him really having a puppet of himself. https://t.co/IyTQy2Vegn

— Richard K Herring (@Herring1967) December 31, 2021

Dead right. They’d both be in the House of Lords by now

— jurek martin (@martin_jurek) December 31, 2021

incredible to think at the start of this year Trump was still president, the Taliban didn’t control Afghanistan, Prince Philip was still alive and the bum flare guy was not yet world famous

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) December 31, 2021

Daleks. It’s going to be fucking Daleks, isn’t it? https://t.co/CWxGWPTfOS

— Fionnbharr Rodgers (@FionnRodgers) December 31, 2021

The Dogs of 2021 pic.twitter.com/aXNh5jD13H

— WeRateDogs® (@dog_rates) December 30, 2021