PROS AND CONS OF OMICRON

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

While legacy media and Public Health Agencies continue to stoke fear over Omicron, new data is painting a different picture of the overwhelmingly mild variant. But there’s a catch; it appears to be able to efficiently escape vaccine protection.

#Omicron #PROSNCONS

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0:00.0	Anybody out there watching the news, they're probably in fear.
0:04.6	And why is that?
0:05.4	It's because the news lately, the past couple of weeks, is looking like this.
0:09.4	Take a look.
0:10.4	Right.
0:11.4	We begin tonight with the latest wave of COVID infections, making it feel
0:14.4	yes, like December of 2020.
0:17.4	The country is in the midst of an Omicron title way.
0:20.3	The average number of new COVID cases, nearly 300,000 a day.
0:24.5	Americans wondering whether family gatherings will affect the spike in cases
0:28.7	fueled by the Omicron variant.
0:30.5	The CDC is now saying the Omicron variant is responsible for nearly 60% of all COVID cases
0:37.2	across the country as of Christmas day.
0:40.1	COVID cases are rising extraordinarily quickly, even in people who are vaccinated.
0:45.7	Dr. Fauci today said COVID Omicron will become the dominant variant very soon.
0:51.2	There are some encouraging signs.
0:53.7	Many people with this new Omicron variant get asymptomatic infections.
0:59.6	While new COVID-19 cases shot up 60% in the last week, hospitalizations rose just 14%.
1:06.4	The average number of daily deaths actually dropped by 7%.
1:10.6	If you have tried to get a test lately, you already know it is very hard to get one right
1:15.5	now.
1:16.5	Again, today, long line stretching through streets in major cities all across the country.
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