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>> bill: it's coming? >> it's coming and needs to be approved. i'm pushing the fda. it has to be approved right now by the way. it has to be approved today. >> bill: for those not vaccinated whether in the u.s., africa or u.k., is this strain weak enough where it won't kill you? what does the data tell us? >> the data says the death rate is very low on this strain right now. but i would caution that that's what we call a lagging indicator. if you are not vaccinated and in a high-risk group you are at risk of hospitalization at least. clearly it is not as deadly as delta but it can get you pret...

How are people responding to the effort to contain the omicron variant? seeing those images of a quiet kings cross. gives you a sense of the severity of the issue and the sheer fear in terms of what it means for the uk. the uk has moved from alert level 3 to 4. they are taking this seriously. they also now reported the first hospitalization of omicron. and keep saying that of course hospitalization and death rates lag. it's a lagging indicator. we'll only know the impact in the next few weeks. as well as the health secretary have said that omicron will probably become the dominant variant by m...

Believed to be largely driven by the omicron variant. south africa is seeing a positivity rate of 24.3% which is extraordinary. there's not enough data yet on hospitalizations because that is a lagging indicator. south africa's national institute severity of the disease develops over time. these are the early days of the fourth wave of the disease here in africa. so far, about 3 million people have caught the virus at the start of the pandemic, hovering around 90,000. >> reporter: i'm ivan watson in hong kong, authorities in the new south wales have ordered an investigation into the cluster of...

Of is it making people more sick. we talked to the professor in south africa. and he said right now, no. but it's too early to tell. . >> yeah. i think that's the case. let's put up that hospitalization graphic again. this is that particular province that we're tracking very carefully. and if you look at hospitalization rates over the last three weeks, they have gone up. they have been higher at other place in the pandemic. but they are going up. this is their late spring over there. you know, we know, severe illness, hospitalization, seems to be a lagging indicator. two to three weeks. i'm go...

It was job growth. it wasn't job less. the reasons the unemployment rate declined are mixed, partly because of people dropped out of the labor force, partly because people got jobs. i think the most positive way to read this report is if it is the delta variant that was really causing the slow down in hiring it looks like this wave may have peaked. this wave of the pandemic, i should say, it may have peaked. hospitalizations seem to be slowing down. maybe even declining in some places. deaths, a lagging indicator may say the same thing, and if that is the case, then maybe next month will be a ...