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it is also found in alpha, but really there aren't any alpha strains circulating widely anymore. >> mainly delta. >> mainly delta. we can be able to distinguish potentially omicron from delta with the quick test. to make the definitive identification, we need to sequence the entire virus. that takes a little longer, about two hours to do the quick test. we were able to sequence the virus in five hours. to give you an idea of the timeframe, typically for sequencing a virus, in general, it takes laboratories about several days, in some cases up to a week, to be able to sequence. we were able to do this because we used a pocket sequencer, a way to do very rapid sequencing of a single sample. so we were able to get an answer in about five hours after receiving the sample. >> i see tubes, dishes. what exactly happens in the sequencing process? >> the sequencing is very similar to what you would do with a pcr tests, getting a test. we essentially prepare sequencing library. all it involves is adding reagents to these tubes and incubating them at certain temperatures. you basically conduct a seri

that is what we have seen with the delta and alpha when they emerged in the beginning. we had a lot of information about the transmission, because that is easy to study. the severity, it took five weeks before we had a conclusive idea. based on the data coming out from the u.k. and south africa, it appears to be overall severity of the disease is less, and very few people needed external source of us -- of oxygen, which is good news. brent: it is good news. if we are not seeing a surge in fatalities from this new variant, then how much does it matter if and when omicron does become the dominant coronavirus variant worldwide? >> absolutely. i think this is our best case scenario. let's hope it does pan out like that. if that is the case, but it would be spreading lavishly, it becomes the dominant spirit -- dominant strain. that a person doesn't need hospitalization, it is not really a problem for the community, because we are living with five other coronaviruses. we don't really care about those because those don't cause disease. therefore, if this would become that leve

we did at time when the alpha and beta variants were just emerging and we showed our vaccine had very effect of, 90 plus percent effect. we are quite comfortable with that profile. alix: were you able to test against omicron? do you have an idea of when you will get that data or if you need to update the vaccine to hit the individual variants? stan: we are evaluating the serum from people who have already been vaccinated and looking at the omicron response. we will have that data within days. our expectation based upon what we saw without for, beta and delta is we will have a robust, protective level of antibodies with omicron just as we have with the others. in addition, we are making a new variant, and omicron strain and the data from the trials we are doing now, the evaluations we are doing now will guide us into whether we should be adding a new variant strain or sticking with what we have. all of that data will come out fairly soon, we will work with the world help agencies to determine the pathway forward. alix: we learned today the double dose of astrazeneca only has about thre

decimal for us to be living after all they think that much better now that we have more treatment, most alpha, another holiday season, overshadowed by the coven, 19 pandemic. another new year on the horizon filled with uncertainty. and go now to dr. muhammed many years ago, there ologist at lancaster university in northern england, talking to a nice to have you on the program. again, new data from the u. k. suggest the ami con, very, is highly transmissible, as was initially thought, but that it may not cause as serious illness. what does that mean for the past the pandemic is taking? well, that's true because i think the, the studies from england and scotland are clearly a good news, particularly for vaccinated and younger people that are on to, on a vaccinated, vulnerable groups or children is still lacking. but in all mean, it's certainly positive. and if that's holds true, then i would have positive knock on effect on to the new year and moving forward with this micron. however, in countries where the only khan is really high in number, particularly in the u. k, it certainly could have im

and in the law school to final, all the torment it's algeria and morocco, alpha mom, a stadium. the and doha has go to joanna roscoe, join a big north african dog with this one and not just because the 2 countries are neighbors. that's right, it could be a feisty one. on and off the pitch. this north african dalby. you know, they've got a history, these 2 teams, i think for me anyway, this call to final really headlines. the matches that are on, on saturday in terms of football. now morocco, all the writing champions. but you have to go back to the last our cup, which was held in 2012 when they won the title. what makes this rivalry really interesting is the political situation between morocco and algeria. they've had strange relations for the last few decades. and back in august, algeria cut diplomatic ties with morocco over a territorial issue to do with the western sahara. so i think this is a really feisty rivalry, and we'll see if it plays out on the pitch in the next few hours to a back on the beach looking at the form of both teams during the tournament, is there much bet

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post world cup alpha mamma stadium just recently opened and like al bait, it has the local touch. alpha mom is actually designed to look like a traditional kaffir that's the woven cap, warned by lot of men and boys in this region. and finally, al general stadium in the city of al walker. this is as far south as you'll go, but that's still only around 20 kilometers window has cbd, it's a unique design from the late iraqi architect. zuraw ha had it. so from al job in the south to our bait in the north there was only some 70 odd kilometers separating the 2 most remote venue. certainly a big change from the last 2 old cups held in russia and brazil. england are facing the possibility of another heavy defeat in the 2nd ashes, taste in adelaide, australia well on top of the day to me on a slab of shame, got a century before being dismissed to 103 steve smith's standing in as captain. because pat cummins was a close contact to a coven, 19 case, he had 93, and we can keep a batsman alex kerry also got a half century straight, decayed on 473 for 9 england ending with a shaky 17 for 2 in re

the time when you're infected and the time when you're most likely to transmit, if you think about alpha, that is said to be five days. delta, four days. and omicron is thought to be three days. and even if we get a transmission, we have, you know, monoclonal antibodies, we have increasing oral options that are going to be away in days and we are more comfortable with treating covid. let's speak to david edwards — he's an aerosol scientist and a harvard university professor and bioengineer. hejoins us from he joins us from paris. hejoins us from paris. does it make sense, reducing the isolation period from ten days down to five days? thank you very much. i understand the logic. it's important for people to understand that the omicron variant, like previous variants, infects us initially in the upper airways. there's nothing about vaccination that prevents that happening. as time goes on and more of the population has been infected or vaccinated, our immune resistance against infection and against severity of symptoms is going up. one of the things authorities are clearly reacting to is

evidence for an increased risk of an infection by the beta, gamma, or delta variant compared to the alpha variant after at the vaccination. then they said in contrast the vaccine-induced immunity no increased risk for reinfection with beta, gamma, or delta variance relevant to alpha variant individuals with infection induced immunity. so prior infection. here is something that dr. fauci said tonight on the issue of natural immunity. >> if you are infected with sars-cov-2 and you are covered, then you are going to have a significant degree of protection. >> a lot of folks think that natural immunity has not been an alpha discussion here but it sounds like we are getting around to that being a part of the whole puzzle. >> you know, i'm so glad you brought that up because i saw that preprint. and by the way, dr. fauci did talk to me about this multiple times in the past but never became part of public policy here. it is public positively in israel, in europe. if you recover from infection, you get six months before they would say you need a vaccine for that green pass. you're in the united s

you know, one of the interesting things about this wave compared to alpha and delta is that we had a 4— to 6—week lag before the uk surge with alpha and delta, before it hit the us, so we had an opportunity to learn from the united kingdom on how to — and what we might expect. we don't have that luxury right now, this came up so fast, and it's causing pretty widespread social disruption from the standpoint that so many of the workers in various businesses — of course, including the airlines — are getting sick now with breakthrough covid, meaning they have had either two or three immunisations and yet, they're still getting breakthrough infections, so it's knocking out a lot of the workforce. so even though we don't really have a lockdown, as we would call it, effectively, it is almost acting like that because it is hard for businesses to operate. and, of course, our biggest concern right now are among healthcare workers, so we that 1—2 punch where now hospitalisations are starting to increase in our major urban areas in the north, such as new york city and washington dc a

that was true of alpha and delta. but it's come much faster because it's so transmissible. so no question, this is accelerating now, especially in new york and new jersey, that has some of the highest variant rates of omicron compared to other variants. how quickly it goes down, that's sort of dicey to predict. yes, it was true in south africa. it's not easy to extrapolate to the united states. so i wouldn't hang too hard onto that. we're going to be in for rough time, for three reasons, katie. one, we've got delta surging now. remember, delta has not gone away, especially among the unvaccinated, that's going to cause a lot of people to get very sick. we've been predicting that for weeks and weeks this winter, just like it did over the summer. now superimposed is omicron and it's so transmissible and so many people that you're hearing about that have been fully vaccinated, even boosted, getting breakthrough covid, that's most likely omicron, that's probably what you're seeing now in the nfl, in the nba. and that's going to be really problematic because it's so transmissible

back injanuary, the alpha wave was causing around 4,000 daily hospital admissions. most people will get mild illness, but some people will be seriously ill, some people will be hospitalised. if the case numbers rise substantially above where they are at the moment, then that small proportion being hospitalised could still put substantial pressure on the health service. sage scientists say working from home will have the biggest impact within plan b on limiting viral spread. but there are still huge uncertainties about 0micron. how it will transmit in the uk, in the presence of a lot of delta, and second, how serious the disease is, particularly in a well vaccinated population. we have to wait until those people with infection have gone through the whole course of disease before we can really work that one out. there is some positive news. 10,000 patients at high risk from covid are to test a life—saving antiviral pill to take at home after testing positive. molnupiravir cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death by around a third. fergus walsh, bbc news. the number

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alpha, beta, and delta drove covid infections globally with devastating consequences in india. my colleague yogita limaye described the situation. every crematorium we've been to, we've seen body after body being brought in. it's hard for anyone to keep count, but what workers have been telling me is that the real scale of deaths caused by covid—19 in india is a lot higher than what official numbers reflect. the threat of variants was real — and their threat was being explicitly connected to vaccination rates. this is the co—creator of the astrazeneca vaccine. we need to be able to find the funds and the means to vaccinate widely across the world. if we don't, what will happen is more mutations arising in the virus, and we will have a harder and harder task to fight the virus as it continues to mutate. through the year, the richer countries pushed on with their vaccine roll—outs. nearly 70% of the uk population has been double—jabbed. but less than half of the overall global population has been. and in africa, it's 8%. and the who continues to focus on this issue. let

seems to be forming amongst researchers that omicron is more transmissible, but less deadly than the alpha beta and delta variance. is that your understanding that if so, is that good news? thanks for having me. i that is generally with understanding, but actually i think what people are not understand correctly is there's not a little missile, but it is actually about 5 times more transmissible. and i think that will actually translate to exponential more cases. the i h a me are institute estimates 3000000000 people will potentially be impacted in the next 3 months. basically, 2 years worth of infection so far in the world. compressed the 3 months and milder is actually a misinformation because in many ways it's intrinsically about the same as delta. it's just that now there's more re infection that those were vaccines in a previous infection. so it looks milder, but actually intrinsically not much. my elder, an indian, when you balloon the total number of cases infected through several 1000000000 will number of people. that's when you're going to overload the hospitals. right. and that t

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solutions or alpha, join me for deep dive into the green transformation. for me to do for the plan. ah, ah, this is d, w. news ally from berlin, hong kong rounds up more journalists in its crack down on the free press. this latest raid targets the offices of online outlets stand, news reporters are arrested and documents hold away. it's the latest blow against independent media in the chinese territory. also coming out, protecting those with disabilities. during the pandemic, germany's top court orders parlor and to ensure the vulnerable or not denied treatment and hospitals are pushed to their limits. and the western new west in the grip of winter days of heavy snow fall and record breaking cold or disrupting life . even in normally, balmy, southern california. ah, i'm michael ok. welcome to the program. hong kong police have rated the offices of the independent media outlets. stand, news, police sources say 7 people were arrested in the case and charged with conspiracy to publish seditious publications. it's the latest blow to the chinese territories shrinking free press. ah, it's

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i think the much better now that we have more caitlin most alpha, another holiday season overshadowed by the coven, 19 pandemic. another new year on the horizon filled with uncertainty more let's bring in dw correspondence charlotte chelsea pill in london, charlotte pre christmas coretta bowers curbs, with cases passing a 100024 hours. how is prime minister boris johnson handling this? that was right, confirmed cases pausing a $100000.00 for the 1st time since the pandemic began. that's a 59 percent increase in confirmed cases. week on week now the public key had been warned that they would see a tidal wave on the, on the cross variance that does appear to be transpiring now, prime minister boris jones. and unlike the leaders of the devote nations moving on and why i was in scotland has ruled out more restrictions. at this stage he said no more restrictions are going to come in over the christmas period or other places on thing that they will bring in more rooms off to christmas. not don't set england apart from the rest of the u. k. he says the needs to be more data on severity of th

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a solutions or alpha join me predict, due to the green trends formation. for me to do with. mm mm ah ah, this is d w. news lie from berlin, france introduces new measures to slow the spread of corona virus. as the country's prime minister says, it's facing the highest number of cases since the start of the pandemic will get the latest from our correspondent and piracy. also coming up on the show. tough talks ahead between iran and major world powers negotiators gather in vienna trying once again to keep the iran you care deal alive after the 2018 withdrawal of the united states. ah, on public only as welcome to the program. french authorities have announced a fresh set of measures to curb an explosion in the number of crone of ours cases in france. they include introducing a vaccine mandate for entry to cafes and restaurants. until now, proof of a negative test result was sufficient. face masks will also become mandatory in some outdoor areas. over 100000 new karone of ours cases were recorded in france on christmas day, setting a record for the country. or correspondence. s

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but for army kron is much short at 3 days compared to 40 for delta and 5 for alpha, for example. but many people are worried because again, the teal and requires that people where mass for the additional 5, these after fi, these of isolation, they have to have no symptoms. and there's no testing involved. so there's a lot of sort of like you're on the honor system after those initial 5 days, right? here in europe and around the world, we're seeing countries re introducing restrictions, including new loc downs and reinforcing the imperative, basically to social distance is your doctor. so all politics aside, is that alone, what we should do to minimize, if not eliminate the spread of this variant? well, i think michael, again, it's so hard for europe right now because it's in the middle of the thunderstorm and you're trying to repair the roof. so it's almost all hands on deck. so one thing isn't good enough of vaccines isn't good enough. booster uptake has been quite as good as people had hoped. again, took everyone by surprise. i think testing isn't us quite as emphasize in europ

james is here as a managing director of cap -- kappa alpha partners, he is looking at what is going on the world, but some trepidation. let us look at the u.s. and russia, and we had a call in which president putin came away happy and there is still a lot of negotiation to go on between the west and russia in terms of what he intends to do in ukraine, how do you view it? >> i think the world is actually a dangerous place as we come to the end of 2021. the united states is totally focused on its domestic internal politics, and yet we have a pattern whereby russia is testing the united states and testing the nato alliance really across the length of their entire border with the nato alliance from ukraine all the way out to sweden and the baltics. and china too we have this pattern of warfare where china is simulating attacks on u.s. carriers and stimulating attacks on u.s. forces. china has a fishing fleet that behaves a lot like a coast guard or paramilitary force that periodically attacks oil projects in vietnam and so forth. it is like we are on a trip wire outside the world and i am

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from no vaccines to multiple vaccines, from no treatments for covid-19 to several, from the alpha variant to omicron, from zero just over 800,000 deaths, please join me in welcoming dr. anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases and chief medical advisor to president biden. dr. fauci has led the country through its worst public health crisis since the 1918 pandemic flu. although to some it may seem he burst on the scene just as covid emerged in march 2020, dr. fauci has been a leading public health and infectious disease voice and expert for more than 35 years. he was appointed to director of the national institute for our -- allergy and infectious disease at the national institute for health in 1984. he has advised five presidents. he led the nation in its medical and public health response to each bite -- hiv/aids and develop the president's emergency plan for aids relief that saved millions of lives. he played a critical role in the response to the anthrax attacks, ebola outbreaks, emergence of bird flu, developing a universal flu vaccine, to n

that's what happened with the alpha variant and the delta variant. it's so transmissible, it's hitting us much sooner. tragically it's going to peak over the holidays. christmas day could be one of the worst times in this current surge, and there's three components to it that we need to think about. one, delta's still not gone away. delta's still been climbing. and even without omicron, we would have had a terrible winter because of the unvaccinated and their susceptibility to delta. now superimposed on this is the omicron variant, which is even more transmissible. so we're seeing a lot of disruption because of that. we've got to throw out this notion that some people are circulating that it does not produce severe illness. it does. so far information coming out of england today are saying it's ever bit as severe as everything we've seen before, so we've got to throw that out. but because it's so transmissible, so many people are going to get infected and we're going to be hearing more and more about breakthrough cases even among the vaccinated. so s

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host: we know the delta variant and what we will call alpha, the first strain were particularly hard on people who had no vaccinations at all. do we know if there is a difference for omicron when it comes to vaccinated nurses unvaccinated? guest: that's what we really don't know yet. we know that omicron has been less severe in south africa. it's a much younger population in south africa. it's been a more exposed covid population in south africa. what we don't know is that older or not vaccinated and haven't been asked those to any type of covid which is a chunk of folks, when we have those people exposed, will this be where they end up in the hospital and we have a problem for a we going to somehow get lucky? not to sound not optimistic that anytime anybody has had a happy word about covid, they've usually been wrong. this disease has yet again said if it were thing it can do, sure i will do that. that is the fear we all have. do we have all the data on it? we do not. it emphasizes that being compared for the worst in covid is never been a bad idea. it means if you haven't gotten va

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alpha, beta, and delta drove covid infections globally with devastating consequences in india. my colleague yogita limaye described the situation. every crematorium we've been to, we've seen body after body being brought in. it's hard for anyone to keep count, but what workers have been telling me is that the real scale of deaths caused by covid—i9 in india is a lot higher than what official numbers reflect. the threat of variants was real — and their threat was being explicitly connected to vaccination rates. this is the co—creator of the astrazeneca vaccine. we need to be able to find the funds and the means to vaccinate widely across the world. if we don't, what will happen is more mutations arising in the virus, and we will have a harder and harder task to fight the virus as it continues to mutate. through the year, the richer countries pushed on with their vaccine roll—outs. nearly 70% of the uk population has been double—jabbed. but less than half of the overall global population has been. and in africa, it's 8%. and the who continues to focus on this issue. let

could have made, looks like that bottom panel would have put the whole thing in it's called negative alpha not working, not performing. take a look at the second chart. this is the reit sector. same circumstance of two panel chart. on the top, reits. they break out underperformance is starting to change you get the tower, the storage name that's been on fire and look to be continuing. this would be favorite >> how about your outlook for 2022 overall >> since the '09, we only had three down years 2015 a down year down less than 1%. the question is, do we get another robust year or not the last 15 years is never once predicted it why would you? no one wants to hear that. it's always higher looking ahead. do we have a down year we'll see. the bigger question is is the upside potential bigger than the downside risk? i would say no >> all right we'll see you again in a few minutes in options action. carter has a bold call for the new year he sees this one sector out performing the broader markets in 2022. he'll lay out the charts on the way. let's trade carter's pick. does steve grasso like rea

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so here's an opportunity to add some alpha, get a little more potential return in there. >> paul, how much do you buy into narratives like the metaverse? which i'm kind of cynical on i think a lot of stuff is being put together in there that doesn't necessarily belong together but broadcom, nvidia, qualcomm google has some gamestreaming stuff that certainly fits and some other technologies as well. how do you decide what actually makes sense in a narrative like that and are you playing it that way? >> so, i do think that metaverse has become too broad, but i do believe that the stuff that's really important is accelerating computing and artificial intelligence, and however you wrap that and whatever kind of marketing spin, those are going to be big, enduring fast-growth themes so, some of the semiconductor companies like broadcom and micron and nvidia and qualcomm, you're absolutely right, they play into that theme >> all right well, we will leave it there for now. some big stable name as cross a bunch of different sectors to think about and rely on. bob pavlik and paul meeks. >>> now