Evening Edition: What Is Known About The Newest COVID Omicron Variant

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🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 infects millions of people around the world, many health experts hope it could lead to the end of coronavirus in Europe and other regions of the world. Though this comes as a sub-variant was identified and is spreading in several countries around the world as well. Dr. Syra Madad, the Special Pathogens Program senior director at NYC Health and Hospitals, discusses whether or not global trends suggest if the end of the COVID pandemic is near, what researchers know about the newest COVID Omicron variant BA.2, and why vaccinating the world's poorest countries is so important. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.9	Friday, January 28th, 2022. I'm Trey Inks. The Omicron variant of coron
0:28.6	coron virus continues to infect millions of people around the world.
0:32.1	We did get lucky with Amac where it wasn't causing a much more severe
0:36.2	horse of illness compared to Delta.
0:38.2	We cannot say the same for the variance that may emerge in the future.
0:42.0	This is the Fox News rundown,
0:44.0	Evening Edition.
0:45.1	As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 infects people,
0:52.2	experts say it could lead to an end of the COVID-19 infects people, experts say it could lead to an end of the COVID-19
0:55.1	pandemic in Europe, though this comes as a sub-variant was identified and other
0:59.7	experts warn of future variants that could arise.
1:02.4	From the Fox News Podcasts Network. experts warn of future variants that could arise.
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