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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. It's the start of a new political week. The Prime Minister comes out of self-isolation tomorrow.

But the news this weekend was dominated by a tweet. The health secretary, Sajid Javid,

announced that he had fully recovered from COVID and that his symptoms have been mild, thanks to the

fact he had been double vaccinated, and that that was proof that we shouldn't cower in the face

of COVID anymore. This drew an angry reaction from opposition politicians and the families of some COVID victims.

And Javid quickly deleted the tweet and apologised for it.

But Katie, despite Sajjav's apology, his tweet does in some ways reflect the government's attitude to what should happen now, doesn't it?

Yes, and I think that you look at Sajjav's apology

after there was quite a quick, angry backlash to their tweet.

It was the word cower rather than, I think, the sentiment.

I think it was seen as a particularly emotive way of talking about it

in the sense that lots of people who've lost loved ones

during the pandemic were quick to take offense the idea that their family members had

carried towards to an illness when they hadn't had vaccines and so forth so I think it's more

the language than the general meaning it's clearly the government's new strategy that people need to learn to live with COVID.

And the chance that it has spoken in the past, even before vaccines were widespread in the population,

about learning to live with COVID.

So I think it's about how you land that.

I think that where I think

the language is going, I think it is to talk about, you know, linking the progress made on vaccinations

with how the UK is now better equipped to deal with this. And I think that's the landing space

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