what we need to understand is if it's more or less transmissible compared to delta, that delta variant is still dominant worldwide. that's important to keep in mind. so we need to see how oma con, compares with delta, when they're both circulating in the population at the same time. so it'll take a few more days, you know, for us to get that information. and we're grateful for their research that's ongoing. with regards to severity, and we have reports of people who are infected with on the con, that have that range in disease very from mild disease, all the way to severe disease. initial reports on the crime came from a cluster of university students. these tend to be younger individuals, and those individuals tend to present with more mild infection. so there was initial reports that intended to be more mild, but it's really too soon. because 1st of all, everybody who is infected with our school, we to, regardless of what varian low, he start out with a mild disease. and so maybe it will stop there with my own. some people are symptomatic, of course, but it may scuff with mild diseas

they have gotten sick from delta or are still getting sick from the delta strain because delta is still very highly prevalent in many parts of the country, hasn't been crowded out fully. host: opening the phone lines for viewers to join the conversation because we have a hard out of the segment at 9:00 a.m. eastern because the house is coming in for a pro forma session today. as we always do, we cover the house floor gavel to gavel. at 9:00, the house comes in. you are joining the conversation. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independent, (202) 748-8002. the book, "uncontrolled spread: why covid-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next pandemic." dr. gottlieb is joining us as part of the annual authors week. can you just remind viewers as they are calling in that there are roles that you play -- of the various roles that you played when it comes to responding to this crisis and the various views you have had on covid over the course of the past 21 months. guest: i was previously commissioner of the fda, so i oversaw a lot of the aspects of the response, altho

got it will destroy the delta v and, and will lose our land value. always get him off but not everyone the poses the government plan. environmentalists regard the delta as one of europe's most important wetlands. over $300.00 bird species inhabit the region. sophia revise runs a private bird sanctuary. she thinks there's no point in piling up tons of sand when dumping wife break is in see as the farmers are demanding slash ill there, that window settlers were more gushy. the predominant mentality was to exactly nature to the fullest twin practically the entire delta was transformed into rice fields. our now it's time for change, but not every one approves of this scientists. it's a natural solutions are better suited to reducing the effects of climate change not really denying this is like denying coverage to go. it's was us. yes. yes. yeah. and he got, he suddenly issued eskromonty got a recall, the locals are divided over how to deal with the threat of climate change and the eroding april delta. though it might be too late if they wait until enviro

plus they are seeing a spike in delta cases. governor of that state, ned lament, w ned lamonto joins us from stanford. >> good morning, margaret. >> brennan: i want to ask about this news you relieved overnight, that omicron is now in your state. is there any indication exactly how widespread it is? in the release, it indicated that the individual was inoculated. didhe or she receive a booster shot? >> governor: i'm not sure about the booster shot. i do know that the patient was immunized and over the age of 60. i tink sometimes there are too much emphasis upon the infection. the good news is on the vaccination, in this case the patient is at home, resting peacefully, and no need to go to the hospital. that is one of the key things that the vaccines we know are affective at. >> brennan: thus far, the indication is a mild type of infection. is that right? >> governor: exactly. yep. >> brennan: you are 7 situated between into major cities, boston and new york, and we know omicron is in both states. how oncerned are you that this i

i think we know about delta. delta's still more than 99% of the cases. delta is vicious. we know that the booster will help restore our antibody levels back to the good old days of the first few months of the vaccine. so, for delta's sake, i think we should get it. for -- because that also helps prevent infection, and getting infected, even as a young person, is a drag. you have to stay home from work or school. you have to tell everybody you have it. everybody has to get quarantined and tested. i think for the older individuals, it makes bigger impact because it may prevent hospitalizations in that group. and for omicron, we have recent data showing that when you get boosted, it turns back the clock as well, at least in labs -- in the lab setting. >> kid are getting out of school in about a week. should we change any plans, holiday plans, or just go forward? >> i think we should just go forward. again, more than 99% of cases are still delta. we know how to deal with delta. if you're vaccinated and/or boosted, if kids over five are vaccinated, i think you'll have that ext

look at delta and the blue boxes. if you go the time since the vaccine and look at the weeks which are shown on the bottom line, there's a very profound diminution below 40% effectiveness with delta. when you boost, you bring it up to delta and the blue, but also to omicron. what does all of this tell us? we are in a situation where we are now facing a very important delta surge and looking over our shoulder at an upcoming omicron surge. the fully vaccinated are doing much better off. as i have shown you, the optimum protection is fully vaccinated plus a boost. the bottom line of what we have been telling you all along, it is critical to get vaccinated. if you are vaccinated, it is critical for optimal action to get boosted. jeff: let's open it up for questions. >> let's go to serena from now this. >> i appreciate you doing this. are we seeing delta, is there evidence that the breakthrough infections are more severe? is there anything we can talk about with long covid? there's a lot of unknowns. dr. fauci: i think you

, this is not delta. it's something different. and these mutations have been associated with increased transmissibility and immune evasion while other mutations have not yet been characterized as their functional capability. next slide. so let's take a look at what we're looking at and then we'll get back to some of the properties. so the c.d.c. -- and you'll hear from dr. walensky -- is implementing their surveillance program. we have ongoing communitication multiple times and information sharing between our scientists and public health officials and the south african government. and kudos to them for their helpful and transparent information sharing between us. so the in vitro neutralization data with vaccine sera, convalescent mrasa, mono cloenl -- plasma, monoclonaal anti-bodes and oral anti-viral treatments anticipated in two to four weeks. that's when they get to individual investigators at the c.d.c., the n.i.h. and other countries for them to prepare that to be able to make a determination. pendin

but there's focusing also on what delta does. we have a lot of questions about omicron but we have a lot of answers about the delta variant. we're hearing a message from officials saying, look, if we look at the data, we can access it from september, unvaccinated people in the united states had almost a 6% increased risk of getting covid and 11% increased risk of hospitalization, and a 14 times risk of dying. so those are the statistics that the biden administration is emphasizing, because that is information that we can all use to make decisions about getting a booster, getting those initial shots, and making the decision to get our kids vaccinated. >> libby casey, no surprise to long time viewers, your data to sentence ratio is high, which provides facts in evidence for people to take this in, both in the very important and serious numbers about those threats that you just said, as well as, eugene, libby making the point here that yeah, no one's trying to reverse engineer fear in the populace, we've had enough over the last few

that is exactly what happened with delta, which was extremely delta deadly. so people say going back to what we said earlier. would someone say why don't we just let omar khan spread well because guess what if you let the spread it will continue to mutate and the last thing we want to see is another deadlier variant. i'm not a doctor and certainly makes a lot of sense to me. that would have been my guess as well speaking of boosters. i know bay area health officials today. they sent out a message urging everyone to get their booster shot. i mean, we've been hearing this for months now boosters boosters boosters, but when it comes to omicron how big of a difference do you think that third shot makes? and this isn't even think this is based on data that is out there in terms of how much that third shot is gonna ramp up those antibody levels and how it's estimated to really boost up the efficacy against symptomatic covid-19 even with the omicron variant to a high level almost close to what it was before with delta and that's important to know for people is that

and delta airlines warned: in the us, daily 0micron cases have risen beyond the peak of the delta waveuickly filling up. despite this, many are still taking the risk to reach their loved ones. i'm very scared to be flying, to be honest. i'm glad to see everyone looks pretty masked up. i hope people on the plane are as respectful of those around them.— are as respectful of those around them. , . u ., around them. fully vaccinated and boosted _ around them. fully vaccinated and boosted and _ around them. fully vaccinated and boosted and all _ around them. fully vaccinated and boosted and all of - around them. fully vaccinated and boosted and all of that . around them. fully vaccinated | and boosted and all of that and i said _ and boosted and all of that and i said i— and boosted and all of that and i said i am _ and boosted and all of that and i said i am so glad to be back with— i said i am so glad to be back with people, doing what we do. i am _ with people, doing what we do. i am still— with people, doing what we do. i am still worried about the very— i am still worried about the ver

the variant we are dealing with right now in our own country with delta. in september of this year unvaccinated people in the united states had almost a% increased risk of getting infected and getting covid 19 compared to fully vaccinated 11 fold increased risk of being hospitalized in 14 increase risk of dying when you compare individuals who were fully vaccinated versus unvaccinated and this is delta. next slide. in vitro studies now indicate booster shots markedly increase the antibody against a wide range of variants. next slide. if you look at this, right now, remember, we were all vaccinated, those who were vaccinated against the ancestral more wuhan strain. if you look at this light of the booster in light blue in younger individuals is with the level of antibody is prior to the third shot boost. 28 days after the boost, a third shot of the mrna 1273, it goes way up to 872, much higher than the actual peak following the second dose and this is reflected also in individuals greater than 65 as shown on the right-hand part of the slide. next slide. the

and this is delta. next slide. however, in vitro studies now indicate that booster shots markedly increase the antibody titers against a wide range of variants. next slide. so if you look at this, right now, remember we were all vaccinated, those who were vaccinated, against the ancestral, or wuhan strain. yet, when you look on this slide of the effective booster, in the light blue, in the younger individuals is what the level of antibody titer is prior to the third shot boost. it was 55. 28 days after the boost -- in this case, a third shot of the mrna 1273 -- it goes way up to 872. much higher than the actual peak following the second dose. and this is reflected, also, in individuals greater than 65, as shown on the right-hand part of the slide. next slide. the same holds true to the pfizer biontech. you see one month after the second dose -- take the blue column. there's 241 as the 50% serum neutralization. one month after the third dose, it goes way up to 1321, and then when you go to the elderly, it goes from

have more delta but it may very well be that omicron is able to outcompete delta. >> with omicron, are you seeing an identifiable pattern of symptoms and severity >> you know, we haven't yet seen any symptoms that are unique to omicron. the symptoms that are presenting are the very similar symptoms that we have seen with delta and with prior variants what we can say is we're starting to get a window in south africa as to the severity, but, again, still too early to tell in terms of whether increased severity associated with omicron compared to delta. >> informally, would you discourage people from traveling, especially overseas, especially during this period where you are still trying to identify the capability of this variant? >> part of my conversation with dr. walensky earlier. >>> let's turn to the economy now and the worst jobs report of the year the number of new jobs falling far short of expectations though, there was also a substantial drop in the unemployment rate. peter alexander has the president's response. >> reporter: tonight america's economy hitting a hiring speed bump

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the peach color represents delta. going from left to right, april, may, june, july, august, september, october, in the middle of the summer, delta went down and you had a number of other variants represented by the different colors. all of a sudden, the blue color on the far right spiked up and completely blew everything else off the sina. now it is all omicron. the same is true in denmark. i just got off the phone this morning with my colleagues in the united kingdom. they are seeing increasing dominance by omicron, the same thing. we have done neutralization studies as well as looking at the clinical impact of what happens when you boost an individual over there two doses of mrna. focus only on the purple bar that says omicron. 21 days after the second dose of an mrna, the protection, which is on the vertical access, which stands for the ability of your antibodies to neutralize the virus. it is markedly diminished with omicron. when you go to the right, which is one month after the third booster shot, notice how the

this is delta. next slide. in vitro studies now indicate booster shots markedly increased antibody titers against a wide range of variance. right now, who were all vaccinated. those who were vaccinated against the ancestral were wuhan strange. when you look at this slide is a light blue from a younger individual is the level of antibody titer is prior to the third shot boost which was 55. twenty-eight days after the boost, a third shot of the mrna 1273, it goes up to 872 much higher than the actual peak following the second dose. this is reflected in individuals greater and 65 as shown in the right hand part of the slide. the same holds true to the pfizer biotech. you see again on the left one month after the second dose, take the blue problem. 241 is the 50% neutralization. one month after the third dose, it goes way up to 1321 and when you go to the elderly, across from 123 to 1495. next slide. one of the things we now know becoming increasingly apparent, when you get a high level of antibiotic and as shown i

goes right back up comparable to delta. what is the bottom line of what i have been telling you about omicron? it compromises the effects of the two dose vaccine against protection of overall infection. but you still maintain some protection against severe disease. in everything i have showed you about clinical studies indicates that boosters are critical in reconstituting protection. i will -- we don't think there is need for a specific boosters. that is why you hear me on my colleagues speak so often about the importance of rooster shots. what about the risk of omicron superimposed on delta? the unvaccinated have a high risk, but as you go from fully vaccinated to fully vaccinated plus boosted, you can see the risk of severe disease becomes extremely low compared to the unvaccinated. what is the end game as we enter 20? obviously we are not certain of it, but if you look at the different faces of an outbreak from the bottom up, we are never going to eradicate this. we have only eradicated one virus, smallpox. elimination

it's not found in the delta variant. that is a result of multiple mutations within the spike itself. once they detect an s-drop, that's when they prioritize the sample for sequencing. and the researchers there are telling me they will be able to identify omicron within minutes from there, they then notify public health officials. we're waiting for a press conference to happen very shortly there in san francisco to give us more information about the first case of omicron identified in the united states. >> an s-drop. all right. erin mclaughlin, thank you so much. dr. peter hotez, monica alba, and dr. john torres, thank you for getting us through this breaking news. everybody, remember, health officials said they expected this variant to be here. what they were doing is trying to buy time with those travel bans. they are cautioning, do not panic, they are testing the variant right now to try and figure out how contagious it is, how serious it is. remember, the person who has it so far, that we know, here in the united stat

so we have delta to deal with. on top of that it is pretty apparent omicron is going to be a problem with us. there is your twindemic. then the tridemic will be influenza on top of that. we saw a big outbreak at the university of michigan and we saw an outbreak at the university of wisconsin and some other universities. of influenza. so i think there is the possibility we will have a typical influenza year this year. last year we had essentially no influenza. we were blessed. so we could have omicron delta and influenza and that is going to be putting a lot of pressure under our health care system. kristen: these are important times to take precautions. professor, thank you so much fuh your time. appreciate it. john: thank you very much. kristen: don't go away because next we are going to talk about something very interesting. we are going to be talking on focusing on reporting on the chinatown community of san francisco. we will talk to a reporter with the san francisco standard, an kristen: welcome back. abc 7 is

potentially this is aood severe than delta. potentially this is good news. _ severe than delta.d news, if _ severe than delta. potentially this is good news, if omicron - severe than delta. potentially this is good news, if omicron really - severe than delta. potentially this is good news, if omicron really is| is good news, if omicron really is less nasty, and it is certainly shaping up to look less nasty, that's fantastic, what better christmas present could we have? but at the moment the data is small, mainly across the younger population so we are holding our breath. it is a cautious — so we are holding our breath. it is a cautious welcome, still some big unknowns, particularly how older people might be affected. typically we are seeing _ people might be affected. typically we are seeing omicron _ people might be affected. typically we are seeing omicron largely - people might be affected. typically we are seeing omicron largely in i we are seeing omicron largely in young _ we are seeing omicron largely in young people and it's onlyjust now the cases— young people and it's o

the belief is that the vast majority of it is still delta. that's bad because delta clearly is happening in unvaccinated people. certain areas are having massive increases in omicron stop in new york, the rate has doubled in the last two or three days. it's shooting straight up. it's consistent with what we know about this. i have seen a lot of doubly vaccinated people who are getting homework ron and i've seen tripoli vaccinated people getting on with consistent with what we know about the disease so far. some of the colleges have been having massive out breaks and the most famous one would be cornell which is a 97% vaccinated place in ithaca so was relatively isolated. they have more covid cases in tompkins county, then they have ever had at any point during the pandemic. it's just spreading. i don't think large chunks of the country has seen omicron hit yet but i'm sure it's starting to percolate. i'm sure the next few weeks will be very interesting. not a word we like to use. host: we know the delta variant and what we will call alpha, th

delta added the potential for bad weather. bitcoin touching the highest level in more than two weeks. it is returning from a risk to risk appetite. it is on course for a third year of gains. morgan stanley says staff that have to be in the office in the first two weeks of january will have to wear masks when not at their desks. it applies to all occasions even for those that are fully vaccinated. citi and jeffries are revising their plans to return to the office. dani: european markets opening flat on thin trading. this comes amid market optimism that the economic recovery will shake off the omicron variant. let's get more from kristine aquino. we are also joined by stephen isaacs from alvine capital. the all-time highs we saw in u.s. equities yesterday, how much of that can we attribute to some of the data points we got out, a huge sum of data before the christmas break started? >> i would not attach too much meaning to what we saw yesterday in u.s. price action. we are in the thick of holiday trading. volume is then as is --

the delta does in sheer numbers terms. even if you have something which is ha, mortality rates of the other existing barons. if you get maybe twice to 3 times as many cases, you're still gonna have a worse outcome in terms of disease burden. because of the small number of people who can still becomes baby on. well, now that is what has prompted. well, data is policy makers, governments all over the world to say, right? we have to do something to make sure we showed up the system because of the other big elephant in the room. the uncertainty will this translate into severe disease in particularly heavily vaccinated countries. like say the u. k. u s. compared with south africa, a country where there's a relatively low level of uptake vaccine, 50 percent in some of the country. okay, so south africa's largest private insurance company actually is saying this new variant is not making up the most of the new cases in the country. as you mentioned, they just have a little listen to this for us. immediate briefing on about an hou

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. >> mainly delta. >> mainly delta. we can be able to distinguish potentially omicron from delta with the quick test. to make the definitive identification, we need to sequence the entire virus. that takes a little longer, about two hours to do the quick test. we were able to sequence the virus in five hours. to give you an idea of the timeframe, typically for sequencing a virus, in general, it takes laboratories about several days, in some cases up to a week, to be able to sequence. we were able to do this because we used a pocket sequencer, a way to do very rapid sequencing of a single sample. so we were able to get an answer in about five hours after receiving the sample. >> i see tubes, dishes. what exactly happens in the sequencing process? >> the sequencing is very similar to what you would do with a pcr tests, getting a test. we essentially prepare sequencing library. all it involves is adding reagents to these tubes and incubating them at certain temperatures. you basically conduct a series of chemical reactions

those delta have arisen.been asked to comment on that four or five times and they have never taken off. what we do not know is whether omicron is going to be more infectious and be able to be more stable and more lasting. it is too early to tell whether that will happen. the information coming out of south africa might do, but they were saying they got over the delta wave. it might not be a straight fight between delta and omicron in south africa, where we have that ability and europe and will wait to see what happens. guy: thank you very much for setting us up. a lot of christmas parties being canceled on the advice you are giving today. dr. sarah pitt, university of brighton, prince for lecture in microbiology, thank you ray much. we have seen a down day for european stocks. a little bit higher for the ftse 100, but nevertheless outperformance coming largely as a result of higher oil prices we have seen this afternoon. the dax and the cac 40 off their lows but still negative into the end of the day. the dax

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both delta and all micron causing this surge. dr. tedra, they're giving what may well be the last w h o briefing of the year and using the opportunity to look back at the panoramic look back of the w. i chose roll in the pandemic and reflect a little on, not just where we've come from, but where we need to go. we talked about science leading to solutions, leading to solidarity so that those solutions were shared around the world. and that being the absolute bedrock of the world's effort in tackling the pandemic thus far leading to successes like the vaccines. but of course, as he keeps reminding us, there is the result of vaccine inequality now where the rich world has vaccinated 2 thirds or more of their populations and now well into booster programs lost the developing world. particularly low income countries have barely begun africa. just 7 percent of the population of the whole of africa has received a vaccine so far. so he's warding, there is, look, we've got to deal with inequality. we've got to make treatments, widely avai

omicron would be taking over delta. right now, the delta variant is the host: tom out of baltimore, d morning. caller: i am 76ers old. i received my second shot in july. the new variant has come around sooner than that. is the six months written in stone? should they get a booster sooner? guest: that's a great question. hopefully, the second vaccine dose, what we deem fully vaccinated, that may ultimately mean you've got your booster as well as we will consider that fully vaccinated and it will be a three dose series. the recommendations are to wait for six months. we do feel the first two vaccines in the series for both moderna and pfizer should protect you adequately. it's different if you received johnson & johnson. the johnson & johnson we know we need to get people there booster at two months out. for now, we are still keeping the recommendation at six months before you get your booster. it is two months for johnson & johnson. host: patrick in maryland. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my ca

significantly faster than delta . ., ., ., , than delta and given the available data it is expected it is expected it _ than delta and given the available data it is expected it will - than delta and given the available data it is expected it will replace l data it is expected it will replace delta where community transmission is occurring, you are very much see and about in the uk right now. we know it spreads quickly but is it milder? the reason i ask is because south africa and other countries are reporting lower hospitalisation rates. , , reporting lower hospitalisation rates. , reporting lower hospitalisation rates. ., . rates. this is one of the critical thins rates. this is one of the critical things and _ rates. this is one of the critical things and it — rates. this is one of the critical things and it is _ rates. this is one of the critical things and it is important - rates. this is one of the critical things and it is important for l things and it is important for decision—makers, what is happening in your hospitals? you have the advantage of a highly vaccinated populati

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they have gotten sick from delta or are still getting sick from the delta strain because delta is stillery highly prevalent in many parts of the country, hasn't been crowded out fully. host: opening the phone lines for viewers to join the conversation because we have a hard out of the segment at 9:00 a.m. eastern because the house is coming in for a pro forma session today. as we always do, we cover the house floor gavel to gavel. at 9:00, the house comes in. you are joining the conversation. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independent, (202) 748-8002. the book, "uncontrolled spread: why covid-19 crushed us and how we can defeat the next pandemic." dr. gottlieb is joining us as part of the annual authors week. can you just remind viewers as they are calling in that there are roles that you play -- of the various roles that you played when it comes to responding to this crisis and the various views you have had on covid over the course of the past 21 months. guest: i was previously commissioner of the fda, so i oversaw a lot of the aspects of the response, althoug

., delta. and agencies reactions - delta. from countries and agencies reactions to - delta. from countries and | agencies reactions to think delta. from countries and - agencies reactions to think the word in government are slowly learning how to try and cope a little bit more effectively with covid 19 and they did when it first appeared?— it first appeared? yes. i would emphasise _ it first appeared? yes. i would emphasise the _ it first appeared? yes. i would emphasise the editor- it first appeared? yes. i would emphasise the editor slowly. i it first appeared? yes. i would i emphasise the editor slowly. we still seem to be fumbling our way through this to a large extent but we are in much better shape in terms of dealing with this than we dealt with delta or that we dealt with delta or that we dealt with alpha so i think that we know what to do, it is just a question of really doing it in a robust fashion. we question of really doing it in a robust fashion.— question of really doing it in a

very high it's delta, and we already know delta is causing a lot of destruction so vaccination and thosehat omicron may be more transmissible. we are still waiting for, as you mentioned, proof or disproof of its virulence. do we think we have the right formulation for boosters with omicron knocking on our door? >> yeah, and i would say there's a stronger signal than even last week when we talked about that transmissibility because the cases are increasing in south africa, and you're seeing, you know, cluster of cases where tons of people have become infected from a primary index person who has omicron. i would say for the booster part, you know, we're still waiting for that laboratory data, but the reason you see myself and many other infectious disease docs and immunologists say we are going to be protected against infectious or severe diseases because no other variant has completely reduced or eradicated the protection against severe disease and death, and that's why those vaccines are so important, and the boosters from what we know now, these boosters are increasing not just your ant

we will discuss on the other side. >> delta is the immediate risk. tragic thing is that there is a lot of people who are going to get infected even still. and they may find that that immunity that they have acquired through that delta infection is not going to be protective against omicron. i worry about states that have low vaccination rates, high delta exposure and are confident right now, perhaps over confident that providence has declined. describes a lot of states in the south right now. which could be vulnerable to omicron, because they're relying a lot on delta immunity >> so that is an interesting point doctor to the late person like me who kind of, delta immunity. and a world where especially without vaccines. is not going to leave you in good stead with omicron approaching. >> south africa has already shown data on that. with they have shown is that people who have prior infection they are seeing three times higher rates in reinfection people who just had inspection. what we know is that if you do get some protection from having an infectio

the might of been with delta. very aood at the might of been with delta.hings of courseware, it is not about being perfect, it's about being good enough so that it allows to less restrictions. brute enough so that it allows to less restrictions.— enough so that it allows to less restrictions. . ., ., ., restrictions. we will have to leave it there. thank _ restrictions. we will have to leave it there. thank you _ restrictions. we will have to leave it there. thank you so _ restrictions. we will have to leave it there. thank you so much. i in wales groups of no more than six people will be allowed to meet in pubs, cinemas and restaurants in wales from the 26th of december. the two metre social distancing rule will also return in public places. here's what the mark drakeford first minister had to say earlier. 0micron is here already in wales and it is now spreading quickly. in england and scotland, it has already overtaken the delta variant and become the dominant form of coronavirus, and that will soon become the case here in wales. well, i'mjoined now by d

delta blames that and the potential for bad water.it coin has jumped to around 51,000 dollars touching the highest level in more than two weeks the largest crypto currency is benefiting from a risk appetite. the digital coin is up to 76% this year. it's on course for its third year of gains. and that's your bloomberg first news. we speak to sayad abikash and why his strategy is to stay short treasure risk that and long dollar. steady today after and all-time high in the u.s. market. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> we certainly favor value into 2022 over growth and are much more on the short duration side. both look ater quities and fixed income. u.s. equities will still do ok next year. i think you can get double that in some of the international markets including emerging marketings. >> we do think it will create some slowdowns in the economy perhaps some slowdowns in production, which could add to inflation pressures. >> the more -- aware that inflation pressures are much more world base right now. are i think the yield is going to direct i

how is it affecting delta right now?fortunately because -- ed: fortunately because we are not all the way back, it hasn't really hit our ability to operate. we have hired 9000 people at delta as we brought the business back up again. we have had really no challenge in locating people. have not had increased scales, people want to work with us. including pilots. when you think about where we are headed over the next year, we are profitable for the second half of this year, including today's announcement of being profitable in the fourth quarter. all the major airline in our country that is meaningfully profitable. i think it is just us and korean air that are profitable in that period. next year is our recovery year, but not a recovery in terms of growth. we will be meaningfully profitable. i put a marker out there for investors. by 2023, we could be fully back. david: final question to both of you. you are ceos of big and important companies. a ceo today has omicron, the pandemic to deal with, as well as inflation and un

cities and states dealing with this, the omicron variant or delta variant. do you think many states have been effective in doing that? guest: i think that is where the focus needs to be. local and state leaders will have a huge role in dictating how the next few months go and messaging from local leaders and state leaders, federal messaging and federal leadership, is critical. the pandemic is playing out in every community and every state a little bit differently but with a common enemy here in terms of the pandemic. i think it is going to be important that there is consistency in that message, that the population understands as much as we want this to go away and is much as we are tired and done with the pandemic this virus is not done with us. i think this new variant points to that, particularly in the northern states. it is going to be that much more important that the next couple months we work together. local and state leaders have a critical role to play in ensuring policies support that and messaging is clear to citizens. host: let's get the calls. w

what do you fear for those individuals as delta continues to surge? >> well, lester, i am very concerned about those individuals. they are going to be very vulnerable. you are dealing with a very transmissible virus. we're looking over our shoulder at omicron, and we have delta staring us right in the face it is a very, very vulnerable time for those people who have not been vaccinated. >> my thanks to dr. fauci in our conversation earlier >>> also tonight the fda now permanently allowing pills used to end pregnancies to be obtained by mail after a telehealth consultation earlier the biden administration temporarily lifted a restriction on the abortion pills which had required patients to pick them up in it comes amid the country's sharp divide over abortion. >>> recovery underway tonight in the upper midwest after the second deadly tornado outbreak in less than a week as we got an exclusive aerial look at the destruction in kentucky all told the storms have left 95 people dead we begin with mora barrett in minnesota. >> reporter: tonight five dead af