Evening Edition: Staying Calm About Omicron

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Medical researchers all over the globe are racing to understand the Omicron variant and preliminary studies show that it may be more transmissible than the previous Delta variant. Omicron was first reported in South Africa which has had a spike in COVID cases but thus far symptoms have been less severe than the Delta variant, causing some optimism that this latest strain can be controlled. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks to Dr. Nicole Saphier, FOX News Medical Contributor and author of the book "Panic Attack: Playing Politics With Science In The Fight Against COVID-19", who says we need more data on Omicron before getting panicked about the new variant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's time to take the quiz.
0:01.7	Five questions, five minutes a day, five days a week.
0:04.3	Take the quiz every weekday at the Quiz dot Fox
0:07.3	and then listen to the Quiz podcast to find out how you did.
0:10.2	Clay, share, and of course listen listen to the quiz at the quiz.
0:13.7	I'm Geraldo Rivera.
0:15.7	I'm Emily Campagno.
0:16.9	And I'm Eric Sean.
0:18.0	This is a Fox News rundown.
0:19.5	Friday, December 10th, 2021. I'm Trey Yinks. Scientists are exploring whether
0:28.0	being fully vaccinated against coronavirus will protect people against
0:32.0	the emerging omicron variant.
0:33.8	There haven't been a red flag at this point to indicate that this variant would cause more severe disease,
0:39.3	cause more severe symptoms, or result at a higher death rate.
0:42.8	This is the Fox News run death, evening addition.
0:50.0	Pfizer said this week that a third dose of their vaccine is effective against the omicron variant.
0:55.8	More research is underway to determine just how transmissible and deadly the new variant is.
1:01.2	The developments come as coronavirus continues to be politicized around the world.
1:05.0	I think it's important that everyone kind of takes the emerging information with the grain of salt.
1:10.0	For more on this story, this is Dr. Nicole Safire. Anybody who's... of because the majority of emerging information is based on anecdotal reports and we're
1:25.2	starting to hear from the Pfizer CEO and Modernist CEO and others and about the ability of
1:30.4	the vaccine to ward off infection as well as severe disease but this is really
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from FOX News Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of FOX News Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.