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Is that, you know, we sometimes are hearing now some relief, and i think that's good that the omicron variant may be slightly milder in terms of its progression to severe disease. there's no reason to think that this is necessarily the end game or the last variant that we might see. we have such high levels of transmission right now, the virus is continuing to mutate, and there's always the risk of future variants. >> yeah, and there's unfortunately been some really convincing research done on that in the past few weeks as well. we're all still trying to digest what is honestly confusing infor...

An opportunity to spread. it has an opportunity to mutate. it will have the opportunity to develop into a new variant like the one we're seeing right now. getting vaccines in arms globally, to increase the immunity we have and not let the virus spread further. >> is it that each mutation is a roll of the dice? this is how the pandemic ends with a coronavirus with mild symptoms, or the doomsday variant that we have no protection from. >> we really don't know where this is going to go. so, we can't predict. what we need to do is make sure we get as many vaccines in arms, vaccines out globally. a...

In hong kong, as well as aggressive military ma thufrs aimed at taiwan. >> this island is potential flash point for what their president calls a fight between authoritarian china and democratic taiwan, ally with the united states. number three. >> protests across russia in support of alexi navalny. >> navalny send to a penal colony, who dared to return home five months after a near-fatal attack. number two. the new year brought with it great hopes for an end to the covid-19 pandemic. the ushering in of widespread vaccinations. the virus continued to mutate, killing millions of people aroun...

The rise of omicron has- reminded us again, if we need to be reminded, that if there are swathesl of unvaccinated populations, this gives chances for - the virus to mutate, - so just when we were settling comfortably, thinking - we could celebrate the end of the year, people _ are considering lockdowns again and the virus is back with us. will we get a third chance? i'm not sure. it sometimes comes in threes. yet the science was there. nothing was secret about it. we knew what we had to do, but people's instinct - is to protect themselves. you can't blame people, but... it is an interesting ch...

Kill you, you should do everything possible to prevent it from infecting you. >> so what do you say to those doctors who suggest this signals at least to them the beginning of the end of a pandemic? are you saying that's too optimistic of a view? >> i've worked with viruses for many decades and i would always say never underestimate a virus, especially a virus such as sars-cov-2 which has shown us an ability to mutate rapidly, mutate extensively, and change the game repeatedly. so every time we have sort of declared victory or freedom or independence and taken off the mask and relaxed our soci...