the lagging death -- delta. the lagging deaths from the delta wave. we've seen that death rates are down from omicron of about 91%. and we will need to follow those deaths over the next couple of weeks to see the impact of omicron on mortality, as you know, given the sheer number of cases. we may see deaths from omicron, but i suspect the deaths we're seeing now are still from delta. jeff: next question, please. >> npr. allison? reporter: sorry about that. that was my mute button. thanks for taking my question. i know there's a lot of focus on the quality of masks right now. my daughter's elementary school is handing out n-95's. does the u.s. have enough to go around if everyone were to start wearing these high-quality masks? or would this put stress on -- or short ands needed for n-95 masks for health care workers? jeff: why don't i go first. one of the first things we did when we entered office was to significantly improve our manufacturing stock and stockpile of all p.p.e. today n-95 masks are widely available and the government has a strong stockp

quarterly results due from delta this hour. we'll get the latest on the travel nightmare atairports from the head of the flight attendant's union, it's thursday, january 13th, 2022 and "squawk box" begins right now. >> good morning, everybody welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. and yesterday the markets were up just a little bit. but we'll take it given what we've seen so far this year. the dow was up about .1% the s&p and nasdaq each up by about .25% dow futures indicated up by 25 points, s&p up by 3.5, and the nasdaq indicated up by about 12 points yesterday treasury yields were higher if you check things out this morning, right now the ten year looks like it's yielding 1.748%. of course, we get more fed speak today and that could move both of these markets as well let's look at the squawk stack this morning, too. dollar was a little bit weaker yesterday. on pace for its worst day since may. this morning indicated down by about .1%. this morning financials closed

delta. promising? taylor: it is all promising when balancing the short-term with the long-term. short-term, it is not looking good with another loss in the quarter as you look at the impact of the omicron variant. but positive when you think about analysts saying the long-term picture is delta sounded more bullish. still looking at the full year profitability. again, try to restore some of the reduced service by the second half of 2022. omicron and the impacts of it remain temporary. romaine: healthy profit was the word they used from the second quarter onwards. interesting commentary. this comes on a day where we are getting a lot of concerns over staffing shortages. we want to bring in our first guest on what is going on out there in this sector. elaine becker is a market that has a market perform rating on delta -- has a market perform rating on delta. delta seemed confident about the idea of a return to profitability. they made it clear there will be bumps the next 60 days, and there wer

the arm, a kron very and so far appears to be less severe than the delta. but remember the caviar, rapid community of spread is seeing larger numbers of children being hospitalized. again, mostly among the unvaccinated and about vaccination. just to refresh your memory, the pfizer by when tech is now authorized and recommended for children from 5 to 17, children from 12 to 17, can get a booster. the f. d, a authorized 12 to 15 and his doctor, one ascii said to day the a c i p will meet about that for recommendation. and finally, a question that many ask, and i'm sure many reporters who have children are asking this. what about kids from 6 months to 5 years? those still, these are ongoing now to get the right dosage regimen to get to where we want to be unlikely the clinical trial or ongoing and in individuals less than 5 years. hopefully in the 1st half. hopefully towards the early part of the 1st half, we may have some information so that we can vaccinate children of that age. i'll stop there and back to you, jeff. well, thank you doctors, and with that, l

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with our delta surge, we had our delta surge about four months ago. we had more kids get infected during that delta surge than at any point prior. we've had 18 pediatric deaths from covid in louisiana. nine of them happened during that delta surge. this notion that kids don't get infected by covid, those were common myths that existed earlier in the pandemic. they have been shown not true. kids very much get covid. on average they do better than people who are older. they do get covid. they can get sick. they can get multisystem inflammatory disorder and they can die. have seen 18 deaths of kids from covid and nine of them were not delta surge. i think extension of getting availability down to age five is good. the more tools to protect kids, the more they will feel comfortable with everything -- the notion that covid doesn't affect kids at this point is just so far from the truth. host: let me bounce this opinion piece off of you. they write, both mandates from the hhs were issued november 5. the delta variant represented almost all covid-19 cases an

what was delta? it was four. okay. i can count. the fifth wave is putting a real strain on our transportation system. due to pandemic-related staff shortages, more than 12,000 flights were canceled between christmas eve and new year's day, and here in new york city staffing issues led to the suspension of several subway lines. what? closing the subway because of germs is like closing broadway because of jazz hands. ( laughter ) of course, it's not just new york -- ( applause ) it's not just new york, jon. >> jon:ist not just new york. >> stephen: it's not. >> jon: it's other places. >> stephen: it's other places. >> jon: yes. >> stephen: nowhere is safety point. even an antarctic research station was hit by a covid-19 outbreak. no one knows how exactly which researcher carried the virus to the station, leading one biologist to say this: >> i don't know who to trust. >> stephen: the outbreak at the research station happened despite workers being fully vaccinated and based in one of the world's remotest regions. yes. so few people th

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delta airlines does not have a union. they are going to push people with discipline and they will push people with this strain of saying we're not going to pay for time out to get better. it is going to push people back into the work force and on to our planes when they are still infectious. we will have long-term pain from this for whatever short-term gain delta will get out of it. >> i'm not pr expert. if i ran a company called delta in the middle of the pandemic, i would be concerned. sarah,travelers headed home. how concerned should they be with shortages with omicron? >> we have people who are sick. before the holidays, we negotiated incentives for people who are well are willing to pick up more flights. they have been unwilling to do that with the conflict with the skies. there should be more crew out there who are incentivized who are well. let's be clear. just like the rest of the country, crews are infected and getting sick. this will cause a staffing shortage because of that. >> yes, it will. sarah nelson, thank

now hong kong is facing the risk the delta variant could be spreading here. david: yvonne man with the latest. let's turn our attention to japan. they are eyeing a three-week emergency with uncertainty over the economy with the bank of japan. let's bring in our chief rates correspondent from asia. garfield, not that the meeting is live but the fact we are excited over it tells you something is happening. we are talking about the boj of course. garfield: you said boj in my instinct is to stifle a yawn. they are usually as exciting as watching paint dry. there has been plenty of excitement coming into this. in the current environment, any central bank meeting is live as far as bond markets are concerned. there has been speculation the boj may actually talk about talking about thinking about when they might raise rates. it is torturous, but if they are doing that, that emphasizes that everybody else is looking, is going to be pushed toward raising rates. one of the big things to watch is if there is the sort of less dovish surprise from the boj, that might be th

with delta, there was delta plus etc. based on delta. i would not be surprised if there is a sub lineage of omicron but it will essentially act like omicron and we will need more information if a sub lineage is going to be worse. but so far, those from delta acted like delta. dion: so much great information and we appreciate those chiming in with their questions. thank you for being with us. up next, safely returning to the office amid the pandemic. and is it the dion: welcome back, everyone. with the holidays behind us, many are returning to work but they are doing so in the middle of another covid surge. our guest is the ceo of d avoidance experts and he wrote a book about how offices are evolving to deal with a remote workforce. thank you for being here. guest: thank you for inviting me. dion: you recently wrote an opinion piece for the san francisco chronicle and the title is attention grabbing. stop trying to make offices happen. a bold statement. what motivated you to write this piece and title it the way you did? guest: we know th

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this is delta airlines. lisa: i thought it was really interesting, she said by summer, we will not be talking about delta, omicron, the pandemic as much. i already started looking for plane tickets. who is not trying to figure out how to get out of the orbit they have been stuck in for two years. jonathan: the people who do not want to go back to work are the ones booking plane tickets to go on vacation. lisa: [laughter] tom: it is funny. this is a huge, huge issue. i cannot remember who it was, i will give credit to james gorman, i might be wrong. he said if you can go out to dinner in soho, you can go to work. jonathan: get the booster as soon as practically possible. office workers are tested on site three times a week. they are trying to make a big push to get back and i think it will be even bigger going into spring. tom: i was talking with the guy yesterday, i cannot remember, newport, rhode island, the context is, is it in london? mike is not worried about people coming back to work. mike wants less s

the red is omicron, the blue a delta infection. so starting at the top, south africa has got a rate of 96 percent on the crowd. now maybe that's a good thing. having more cases of the milder variance further down the list, let's look at the united states, for example here, which is sort of got a 6040 splits between the 2. but i think what's interesting and i'm gonna try to draw a box around all of them. here are these european countries, italy, france, and germany with rights of 80 to 90 percent of delta. the more concerning variance, if i can put it that way of coping 19, and maybe that's why they are restrictions, are a little bit tighter in those sorts of countries. the question now is, is all micron, perhaps the lesser of 2 evils? ah, let's bring in our guest. joining us from dell ha, is had the scene who's the head of research cuts? our university's biomedical research center over in london is oksana pisec, who is the lead that university college london global citizenship program on outbreaks of infectious diseases. and joinin

when you look at the delta. from last winter, as cases increase, hospitalizations and deaths increased in a similar pattern. strikingly, when we compare the past month, when omicron was the predominant variant, we can see a clear separation between cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. while cases have dramatically increased and are five times higher than they were during the delta wave, hospitalizations have not increased at the same rate. deaths remain low in comparison to the case count. when looking across these periods, with high transmissions in the pandemic, you can see that while the number of hospitalizations is higher than we have ever previously seen, the ratio of hospitalizations to cases remains lower than prior peaks. when we look at other disease severity indicators, measurement people who are hospitalized with covid-19, such as hospital length of stay, icu admissions, and that, it is lower with omicron thin during previous periods of high transmissions did this is likely attributable to two key fa

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. >> cases in australia dwarfing what we saw with the delta variant. we had 18,000 new cases in new south wales yesterday and more than 7000 in victoria. hospitalizations about where they were with the delta wave but even scott morrison has said that someone in his household tested positive yesterday to covid but according to the new rules come he doesn't have to test or isolate. >> let's discuss the virus situation with ian fisher. you are in the u.s. and we continue to see record cases with new york state also chattering its record. are the regulations keeping up? ian: i don't see much of a move to impose that many regulations. because there is not really a federal responsys, it is sort of left up to the states. the closest that things have come -- or a hint of it came from biden's top medical advisor saying they might require testing for asymptomatic people before they go back to work. they had shortened the isolation period from 10 days to five days after a positive test for asymptomatic individuals. there is a lot of pushback on that. but we have

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fauci said the data show that this new variant, omicron, less severe than delta. but we continue to see larger numbers of children hospitalized. knowing that so many younger kids can't get vaccinated yet, what advice do you have for parents here? >> well, with parents, well, you know, kids are -- they're only low risk. especially from the omicron. children by and large are not vaccinated in large numbers. and that is a concern. and dr. fauci mentioned that they're talking about six months to five years, but right now above five years is important and over the age of 12 you can get a booster. the booster mitigates the omicron infection. if you're a child with obesity, diabetes, chronic lung problems, heart disease, your child is at great risk to be hospitalized. and even die, and that is a big problem. and we don't want that to happen to any parent much less the child. the advice is clear. get your child vaccinated if appropriate, and now the booster are going to be available for young people, adolescents, et cetera, below the age of 18. that's really, really impor

is not gone i know omicron may be more mild for the vaccinated but delta has not gone away. this is the threat, we ignored it in the media for the latest strain >> yeah. 100% agree with you. i think we were deceiving ourselves if if we didn't think we were going to have a delta surge this winter anyway, before omicron came on scene. as you mentioned, in the northeast and midwest, and certainly us out here, you know, we had that delta surge. it was a surge and then a plateau and then omicron kind of took off from that delta crest i suspect that a lot of our icu hospitalizations right now, my hospital in los angeles, are delta related. a lot of these patients have been there for weeks, if not months that's why in particular in l.a. we're seeing an increase in our daily deaths as well i think that is certainly delta. >> i want to highlight a little bit of positive news but a tough time for so many people going on two years now, it's been devastating for so many families, especially families with kids. let's highlight the positive news, a huge kaiser study, i think it was 70,000

it's just, we're comparing to the most severe strain delta that we've seen to date. and also a lot of cases are great through infections and re infections in those obviously those who have breakers reinspection have miles or illness because of their partial previous immunity. but that in itself is not really encouraging, given that people who have previous alpha, beta, or delta of varying infection have almost no cause neutralization again and altogether this mild is intrinsic mild. this is only about 10 to 20 percent lower, but you have doubling of cases every $2.00 to $3.00 days. and so that is easily swamped out easily swamped out by exponential rise in case the exponential. now, will you send more people to the hospital in strict and more people with long code? so we should not going through this mile in the, in any way, especially when the health minister yesterday says there one in 2 people could actually expect to be in one for example. and that is not a number that we want our health system, not just the next 60 weeks, but long term the next year or decade to

the scene of this crime is the danube delta on romanian coast where the river empties into the black sea through a vast network of channels. along with rare plants and birds, the world's largest species of sturgeon is found here. what few remain of them catching them has been prohibited for years about 80 kilometers inland to the west . sturgeon farms present, an alternative to decimating the last wild sturgeon's in europe. medina, man yano breeds hundreds of female sturgeon. the females can be artificially inseminated, so they produce ro, or caviar, or one. and my ot i, it's all done according to the strict animal welfare regulations. marlena shows us female sturgeon, whose eggs are ready for harvest. she earned $230.00 euros per kilo for her caviar, hardly enough to break even after 9 years of farming. she's angered by the unfair competition from poachers. nope, i suppose. don't think that boucher just takes the whole fish. he doesn't pay a thing when a flight is cast is nets and takes his bed and anchored the caveat or shop and got huge either heads here on behalf of the many year

it's just, we're comparing to the most severe strain delta that we've seen to date. and also a lot of cases are great through infections and reinfection. in those obviously, those who have breakthroughs, reinspection have miles or illness because of their partial previous immunity. but that in itself is not really encouraging, given that people who have previous alpha, beta, or delta varying infection, have almost no cause neutralization and trucks and all together. this mildest, intrinsic mild, this is only about 10 to 20 percent lower, but you have doubling of cases every $2.00 to $3.00 days. and so that is easily swamped out easily swamped out by exponential rise in case the exponential mass alternately and more people are hospital in strict and more people with long code. so we should not consider this mileage in any way, especially when the health minister yesterday says they're wanting to people could actually expect to be and why and that is not a number that we want our health system, not just the next 60 weeks, but long term and the next year or decade to be

it has a particular r never called me a beacon to them back on the delta police boat. the patrol is over and didn't turn up anything suspicious this time. but all too often the professional poachers are too slick for them. gabrielle admits. they warn one another by radio and their boats are generally faster to you as if you're living. of course, i'm disappointed all a day we don't achieve. our goal is a day lost and she will also mountain will be back, would answer to the poachers who better watch out for us, for sure. on saw the genesis of, ah, gaudy, n says the delta always gives him new strength, and he remembers the old police saying, the poachers may have gotten away 10 times, but next time we'll catch them. well caviar is not among the dishes, you'll find on the menu at nicholas friars restaurant in the town of chester and north eastern england. when the british chef turned at reagan a few years ago. he and his team made a choice to offer their customers a plan based menu. now the chef is getting the star treatment for his culinary excellence and his sustainable

the scene of this crime is the danube delta on romanian coast where the river empties into the black sea through a vast network of channels. along with rare plants and birds, the world's largest species of sturgeon is found here. what few remain of them catching them has been prohibited for years about 80 kilometers inland to the west . sturgeon farms present, an alternative to decimating the last wild sturgeon's in europe. medina, man yano breeds hundreds of female sturgeon. the females can be artificially inseminated, so they produce ro, or caviar, or $18.00, and my ot i, it's all done. according to strict animal welfare regulations. marcelina shows us female sturgeon, who's eggs are ready for harvest. she earned $230.00 euros per kilo for her caviar, hardly enough to break even after 9 years of farming. she's angered by the unfair competition from poachers. nope, i suppose. i don't think i put it just takes the whole fish. he doesn't pay a thing when a flight is cast, is nets and takes his badge and hangs the caveat, or shop, and got huge either heads here on behalf of the many ye

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this increase reflects both cases caused by delta and omicron. over the past month, we have seen the percentage of omicron cases increase and delta decrease. based on genomic sequencing, we now estimate that omicron represents about 95% of cases in the country. the sharp right and the emergence of omicron emphasizes the importance of vaccinations and boosters. this week, fda made several authorizations. cdc followed these authorizations by making additional vaccine recommendations. fda authorized and cdc recommended shortening the window in which people who received the pfizer vaccine can get a stir does from six months to five months. second, fda authorized and cdc recommended that children five to 11 who are moderately or severe unity immunocompromised should get an additional shot of pfizer 20 it -- 28 that is that second shot. today, cdc is discussing boosters for those 12 to 16 years old. i look forward to listening to the discussion that will take place this afternoon. current data demonstrate that receiving a booster dose is critical to pr

only 5% of the cases are now attributed to the delta variant. the omicron continues to surge in the country. also hearing that the national guard will be sent out to hospitals if need be, and that 96% of schools are all open. jeff zients reiterating that the schools have the tools including $130 billion in federal funding to help mitigate against the spread of covid in schools across the country right now, and still more data coming out on studies, on the severity of omicron compared to delta. it does appear that omicron is less severe and they address how this is impacting children as well. back to discuss this is dr. megan ranney. you heard from the doctors saying this does appear to be less severe in children. that's good news. >> it's terrific news. the messaging from dr. fauci and dr. walensky i thought was tremendously clear. the takeaways are omicron, particularly for those of us who are vaccinated, is not as severe as prior variants of covid. that's part of what makes right now different from 2020. but if you're unvaccinated you're still

it has a particular r never called me a beacon to loo, back on the delta police boat. the patrol is over and didn't turn up anything suspicious this time. but all too often the professional poachers are too slick for them. gabrielle admits. they warn one another by radio and their boats are generally faster to you as if you are living. of course, i am disappointed all a day we don't achieve or goal is a day lost. she. what on some of them will be back, would answer to the poachers who better watch out for us, for sure. on saw the genesis of foot, gabriella says the delta always gives him new strength, and he remembers the old police saying, the poachers may have gotten away 10 times, but next time we'll catch them. well caviar is not among the dishes, you'll find on the menu at nicholas fires. restaurant in the town of chester and north eastern england, when the british chef turned meagan a few years ago. he and his team made a choice to offer their customers a plan based menu. now the chef is getting the star treatment for his culinary excellence and his sustainable b

i'm going to flip back to the police boat in the danube delta. the 2 officers have come across a fishing boat and thought it is gabrielle asked, the fisherman if he ever accidentally catches sturgeon and his net. the fisherman is evasive when gabrielle asks again, the fisherman just shows him his permits and licenses get a chance to look over. the police have nothing on these fishermen. their papers are all in order even so nobody is to be trusted here. the poachers can be very slippery, cellphone videos of recent missions, time and again, the police come across a legal nets with mash, so find that even smallest urgent, get caught in them. often they die agonizing deaths. gabriella says, this rescue effort shows how hard it can be to get them untangled. this beluga sturgeon, the largest species, is some 3 meters long and weighs 800 kilos. the police struggle to save it for over an hour with really bad. about 2 kilometers away from the sea is found to giga, a fishing port that can only be reached by boat for years. the town lived from caviar expor

back to the police boat in the danube delta. the 2 officers have come across a fishing boat. to the thought of this, gabrielle asked the fisherman if he ever accidentally catches sturgeon and his net . the fisherman is evasive. when gabrielle asks again, the fisherman just shows him his permits and licenses you the chance to live with. the police have nothing on these fishermen. their papers are all in order even so nobody is to be trusted here. the poachers can be very slippery. cellphone videos of recent missions, time and again the police come across a legal nets with mash, so find that even small sturgeon get caught in them. often they die agonizing deaths. gabriella says this rescue effort shows how hard it can be to get them on tangled. this beluga sturgeon, the largest species, is some 3 meters long and weighs 800 kilos. the police struggle to save it for over an hour with healey, beth, about 2 kilometers away from the sea is found to giga, a fishing port that can only be reached by boat for years. the town lived from caviar exports. since sturgeon fishing was ban, the

i think what you're alluding to is potentially using something with a lower delta there's nothing wrong with that. you have to understand the trade off is a much worse risk/reward for that particular trade. >> mike, a technical question. take it apart for us. >> yeah, i mean, i would agree with tony on this one. the thing is, i often try to, when i'm looking at debit spreads think about essentially, the payoff we're often looking for payoffs of 3 to 1, or better meaning you would spend about 25% of the distance between the strikes. however, when i'm looking at credit spreads, that situation can seem somewhat less attractive that would mean you would actually want to increase the delta of the option that you're selling, essentially to get more of the total possible premium between the strikes. so, you know, this is the kind of trade-off you're dealing with but if you're going to sell credit spreads against, for example, a long position, then the lower delta is definitely the way to go. >> let's go to our final calls, carter, you first. >> well, victoria's secret it's a great place to be.

quarterly results due from delta this hour. we'll get the latest on the travel nightmare atairports from the head of the flight attendant's union, it's thursday, january 13th, 2022 and "squawk box" begins right now. >> good morning, everybody welcome to "squawk box" here on cnbc i'm becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. and yesterday the markets were up just a little bit. but we'll take it given what we've seen so far this year. the dow was up about .1% the s&p and nasdaq each up by about .25% dow futures indicated up by 25 points, s&p up by 3.5, and the nasdaq indicated up by about 12 points

and will be presented by a representative from delta dental. i will be passing presenter privileges momentarily. good afternoon. again, my name is sharen stanek-lowe with delta dental. thank you for having me today. today we'll be discussing the quarter three, so q1 through q32021 report to the health service board. during q3 of 2021, our focus was in the following three areas. improve oral health, network, and member satisfaction. you may call in q2, we presented this dashboard that focused on sfhss utilization of the dental plan both sieve and retiree members and the focus primarily was on prevention and looking at and pulling data for cleanings, the smile way program, online accounts and then overall utilization by type of service. i would like to go through each of these boxes to update you on the q3 numbers. so first in the upper left-hand corner, number of submitted cleanings and the teeth on the left-hand side, one cleaning, two, and three, pretty self-explanatory. but when we are looking at numbers if we look at the active column, those

and again, i'm a crime is about $4.00 to $6.00 times more trans municipal than delta and delta was twice as trim. this will. so this is we're talking about 10 times more, transmissible individual strength. and that will actually drive more cases. you will talk location or an all time high us pediatric hospitalization is 2 times last years all time high. and it's, it's still continuing the search beauty after cost addition to also a record high you and as well as france, many, many other countries this. and we're not even halfway through the search yet many don't. even when the case of peak were even when it peak sometime in the next 34. busy 6 weeks, even when it peaks were only have had, have the keys, the other half the cases will be when it on the other way down in people also neglect that as well. so when do you have experimental rise will automatically overwhelm the hospital system and it doesn't just affect those were coping, but also those with cancer, heart attack or traffic accidents, everyone is infected affected when hospitals are well. i was given what you're saying then. i m

. >>> next viewer -- with the short or long being around the 4.50 delta it doesn't seem to leave a lot of room for error as to where to open the position. how does one choose the openings points accurately? tony, brack it down for you. >> strike selection is about choosing with probably and risk/reward. the higher deltas do perform better, but just to bra ecthat done, what you're going to have is a lower probability of success, what you're alluding to is potentially using something with a lower delta there's nothing wrong with that. you have to understand the trade jo is much worse risk/rear ward. >> mike, a technical question. take it apart for us. >> i would agree with tony on this one the thing is, i often try to, when i'm looking at debit spreads, these about eventually the payoffs. obvious looking at 3 to 1 or better however, when i'm looking at credit spreads, that situation can seem somewhat less attractive that would mean you would actually want to increase the delta of the option that you're selling, essentially to get more of the total possible premium between the strikes. so

delta variant. i think over 2 million _ delta variant. i think over 2 million people in the week leading up million people in the week leading up to— million people in the week leading up to christmas were infected with the virus — up to christmas were infected with the virus in — up to christmas were infected with the virus. in the weeks leading up to the _ the virus. in the weeks leading up to the end — the virus. in the weeks leading up to the end ofjanuary we will be able _ to the end ofjanuary we will be able to— to the end ofjanuary we will be able to get a better picture of that for support johnson able to get a better picture of that for supportjohnson is under a lot of pressure — for supportjohnson is under a lot of pressure from tory backbenchers and even _ of pressure from tory backbenchers and even from sajid javid who was said that _ and even from sajid javid who was said that curves on any personal freedom — said that curves on any personal freedom must be the last resort

and will be presented by a representative from delta dental. i will be passing presenter privileges momentarily. good afternoon. again, my name is sharen stanek-lowe with delta dental. thank you for having me today. today we'll be discussing the quarter three, so q1 through q32021 report to the health service board. during q3 of 2021, our focus was in the following three areas. improve oral health, network, and member satisfaction. you may call in q2, we presented this dashboard that focused on sfhss utilization of the dental plan both sieve and retiree members and the focus primarily was on prevention and looking at and pulling data for cleanings, the smile way program, online accounts and then overall utilization by type of service. i would like to go through each of these boxes to update you on the q3 numbers. so first in the upper left-hand corner, number of submitted cleanings and the teeth on the left-hand side, one cleaning, two, and three, pretty self-explanatory. but when we are looking at numbers if we look at the active column, those

delta breeds confidence. a couple of things are going on here delta is focusing on balance sheet fostering. the fact that they paid down $6 billion in debt, they hope to be down $15 billion in debt by 2024, these are very good signs and why it's one of the highest quality names. they did not have to dilute the equity shareholders in the worst of this. if you look at their january numbers, obviously they're down, they've had a lot of flight cancellation december numbers were around 76, 77% of pre-covid 2019 capacity and they're going to be there by march. i think the march month for the firstquarter is obviously very important. but ultimately, again, people -- look at what they did over the holidays with omicron peaking. they want to be in airports. they want to be in airplanes and the best carriers are the ones that have reinstilled confidence if you look at the chart of delta, this gives you confidence as well. you're up against the top end that have down trend that's all the way back from march of last year

looks on about just about delta saying you brought it up. how. how bad is delta still? if i can just put it in really simple terms like will on the crown is out pasting delta. so we have to you or delta cases though it isn't. wiped out yet, it could be that we see it lasting and coaster relating in the future as well. delta we know has higher rates of hospitalization. so i'm a chron by comparison. i has a 50 to 60 percent less chance of hospitalization, so there is still that real threat or around catching either on the ground or delta based on where you are in the country or the world that's on a physic. thank you so much for your time. and your expertise really do appreciate it. thank you. now, lawyers for the you guys, prince andrew, have argued that a civil lawsuit accusing him of sexual assaults should be dismissed. virginia for i says he forced her to have sex with him when she was 17 years old, or he strongly denies the claims. a hearing has taken place in new york christian salamis keeping across it for us. christian, what happened in the hearing while in that h