The News Roundup for January 07, 2022
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🗓️ 7 January 2022
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Summary
Approximately 1 million new infections of COVID-19 were reported nationwide in a single day. As cases pile up, the U.S. government announced that it will buy 20 million of Pfizer's COVID antiviral pill, doubling its previously announced order.
Meanwhile, after backlash over his COVID vaccine exemption, tennis superstar Novak Djokovic has been denied entry into Australia and faces possible deportation.
The government of Kazakhstan has resigned as protests about rising fuel prices lead to clashes on the streets. Dozens if demonstrators were killed. Now Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has ordered security forces to "kill without warning."
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jen. Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:03.8 | The news is rapidly developing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
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| 0:22.0 | This is the OneA podcast. I'm David Gura in for Jen White and you're listening to the news roundup. |
| 0:26.8 | A new year begins and the pandemic continues. The Omicron variant shows no signs of letting up. |
| 0:32.8 | On Thursday, the US hit more than 600,000 new COVID-19 cases. That's more than double the daily |
| 0:39.0 | case average at the height of our previous worst surge back in January of 2021. The CDC says the |
| 0:45.8 | Omicron variant accounts for 95% of new infections. That's as of Tuesday. So what does this mean for 2022? |
| 0:53.0 | And how can we stay safe? Lauren Weber is the Midwest correspondent for Kaiser Health News. |
| 0:57.5 | Lauren, great to have you back. Thanks for having me. Steve Clemens is the editor at large of the |
| 1:01.9 | Hill. Hey there, Steve. David, great to be with you again. Lauren, let me start with you. I mentioned |
| 1:06.6 | 600,000 new cases a day. That's a rough average and over the last two weeks, the total number |
| 1:12.1 | has more than tripled. What do we know about this latest surge? Where we are in it and what does it |
| 1:16.6 | tell us about? Where we are in the pandemic as a whole? Yeah, I mean, absolutely. The good news is |
| 1:22.8 | is that there is some hope that hopefully this surge will peak sometime by the end of this month |
| 1:29.2 | or early next month according to what Dr. Fauci said last week. The bad news is that when you just |
| 1:35.1 | have this sheer amount of cases, you're going to end up having more hospitalizations. But the |
| 1:42.0 | also the good news is that this strain and this variant, it does have milder COVID. So, you know, |
| 1:48.7 | folks are not getting hospitalized at the rates. You know, previously, if we had seen the sheer amount |
| 1:53.2 | of infections with a delta strain, hospitalizations would have been much, much higher than they are |
| 1:57.7 | right now. So, you know, the good news is it's a milder strain. The bad news is it's affecting so |
| 2:02.0 | many people in the US that it's causing, you know, work shortages, you know, flight issues. It's |
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