This video is brought to you by a life insurance that you can get in as little as five minutes by going to medken.com life and their writing policies during the pandemic. Okay, folks, we need to talk about omicron, because i really believe the heges are shorting. Small cap stocks as a way to protect from uncertainties around omicron, and i found this very interesting. The airline industry has been freaking out because people are being recommended to isolate for 10 days after testing positive with covet and omicron.

But omicron has a substantially shorter symptom period, and so now the cdc right after big business is like come on cdc change. The guidelines sure enough. The cdc today lowered the recommended isolation period for asymptomatic people from 10 days after testing positive to 5. But who is asymptomatic is not determined by a doctor or a testing center, it's determined by you.

So if you feel asymptomatic, you only have to isolate for five days. But if you want to get uh, you know more paid time off because you feel sick. Then i guess you got ta stay home for ten days from work. That's not helping the airline industry be very happy.

That's leading to some some confusion which honestly, the cdc and confusion i mean honestly. I feel like these things. Are these things go hand in hand? Uh we also have uh the following chart, which is not so great uh. It is from the department of health and human services.

These are where we stand with covet case counts. Obviously you could see the surge is here uh. The top gray dotted line is 200 percent of the peak of the last coved peak that we had last winter. You could see dc well over 200 percent new york well over 200 percent, new jersey, well over 200 percent.

So, like the the tri-state area, ouchies puerto rico, jumping rhode, island climbing up there, delaware, climbing up there. I mean look at some of the pain that you're getting here on these charts, even hawaii, is having the explosion in cases. I did think it was interesting that new hampshire's already kind of peaked a little bit and started to rotate down now. What we do need to do is we need to talk about the united kingdom what's happening in the united kingdom.

First, you got to be careful, don't just google united kingdom case counts at cobit, because you're going to see an inflection point to the downside. But that's because google has not updated the covet cases yet and i recommend maybe don't use just google don't just rely on google. There are two places that you can watch for. Covid case counts on one is covet.join zo, ze, zoe.com uh and the other is our world and data.

We're gon na look at both of these and look at some of the latest numbers. We're gon na keep an eye on those hospitalizations as well. Keep in mind some of the expectations in south africa, south africa has about an average population that is around 10 years younger than that of the united states and the united kingdom. On top of that, we are in a situation where many more individuals in south africa were previously exposed to some form of coronavirus or have been vaccinated than really the united kingdom or the united states.

That means there's a much larger, unvaccinated and unexposed population of individuals. In the united kingdom and the united states and some believe that could mean we could end up having a more severe outbreak of omicron, though fortunately so far. Studies are indicating and knock on wood that this is a much more mild disease. But let's look at the numbers.

Nonetheless, for the united kingdom, all right here we go uh. This is a chart. It's an interesting one. It's a chart of the number of people calculated to have coveted symptoms, and right now we can see that this chart is not letting up.

The latest piece of data that we have here is that the united kingdom is protected, predicting uh across the united kingdom. A total case count of one point: almost nine million in terms of number of predicted cases. Now, that's not where we actually see. We stand right now.

We technically stand at 183 000, but that's because they believe more than 10 times. The number of actual recorded cases are are actually individuals who are sick. That means for every one person gets tested there, probably another 10 who are sick with omicron, don't know it aren't getting tested, so we're going to get exposed with omicron. In fact, you might be watching this and you might hear some people around you with some sniffles or a cough.

They could have the omicron. It is insane the predictions here now if we jump on over to our world in data, fortunately we're seeing only modest upticks in hospitalization in certain areas. Take a look at this we're seeing a small uptick in hospitalizations here in spain from about 6422 to 7815. Now, that's that's just over a one day period of time, so that's actually a decent uptick there, a larger uh movement there, but otherwise we're relatively flat slow, slow gains here on hospitalizations increasing you take a look at italy.

We went from 10 309 to 10 849. So we're definitely seeing an increase of new popular new hospitalizations. Now, usually we like to say ah, but they could be coming to the hospital for a different reason. Then they get tested and they have coven yep.

That is definitely possible, and fortunately we have a particular chart for this. What is the weekly number weekly okay, this important weekly number of new hospitalizations due to covet this is such a critical chart. We cannot understate this, let's zoom into it, so we can get the best understanding just by trying to get in on december. Here that way we can get the clearest look.

Hospitalizations in the united states due to covet is still rising. Over the last four days, we went from fifty nine thousand four hundred to sixty five thousand nine hundred. That's uh, almost uh, an eleven twelve percent increase here. That's not great quick reminder to go to medkevin.com life to get a life insurance policy in as little as five minutes.

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So hopefully we start seeing that hospitalization count start curving to the downside, inflecting to the downside kind of like what we had over here in in the netherlands. The netherlands had hospitalizations plummet from about 1800 and they had a pretty severe delta surge all the way down to now 1100 in just the last couple of weeks. Here we're not really seeing an inflection point up anywhere, except for in spain, where, in the last 12 days in spain, we've gone from 4778 hospitalizations due to covet to 7284.. That's quite a chunk more 4700 to 70, almost 300 700 that works out to about a 50-ish percent increase in the number of coveted cases in hospitals due to coven.

So we want to watch spain and we want to watch the united states. The good news is the united kingdom so far relatively flat. However, we don't have the latest hospitalization data yet from the united kingdom. This ends on the 20th.

So we're looking for another update on this within about the next 24 hours, so we could get a full week of data from the united kingdom and we don't want to see an inflection point to the upside on omicron. Okay. Now it is worth noting that uh there's a lot of drama happening right now because of joe biden. That is because, in regards to a coveted question, joe biden mentioned the following quote: there is no federal solution.

This gets solved at the state level. Now this is a problem and joe biden is trending on twitter for this, because this is what joe biden sent right before the election of 2020.. Joe biden said we're eight months into this pandemic and donald trump still does not have a plan to get this virus under control. I do well now joe biden's saying there is no plan.

Obviously well. Maybe it's not obvious. I believe joe biden is trying to suggest. That's its state's responsibilities to handle their own crap, but, let's be real.

Joe biden suggested he had a plan and, quite frankly, there is a lot the federal government could do, including and not limited to distributing proper n95 masks to individuals. I do not have any investments in n95 companies, i do not get sponsored or affiliate links or whatever for n95 mass. I just highly recommend that if you do want to be protected even from getting a cold okay, you know whatever. If you don't want to get sick and you're going to be in a really populated area - and you wan na have a good mask, i highly recommend just type this into google.

I encourage you, do it before they're sold out and again i'm not even using an affiliate link, because i do not want you to think i'm trying to make money off you buying these masks. I'm just trying to offer you this service type into amazon, n95 and not kn95. Those are the chinese version, lower standards, i'll tell you. I can never visit china they're, probably gon na kill me if i go there, but anyway, box of 20 22 bucks get these right here flat.

They go over your head, they don't go behind your ear. The ear ones are a little bit more comfortable uh, but these are pretty good and they have a little foamy by the uh, the metal band as well they're great, i just got mine uh. The price of them has kind of been ticking up, though a little bit but anyway uh no plan. Joe, is now the number one, the number one trending uh or has been the number one trend on twitter uh and again this is my opinion.

The government should be sending n95s to people not just tests, but whatever they're expensive, okay, a buck, a mask jeez, you know you have to wear those a few times anyway. Covet hospitalizations have also been rising to a new high in new york. We're now over 5500. We're seeing an uptrend towards children being hospitalized due to covid, not with covet.

We went from 22 children hospitalized on december 5th to 109 hospitalized about 5x ending the week of the 23rd. Now, none of the kids that are hospitalized now or were hospitalized due to covet have been vaccinated. Again. There is possibility that we still have a little bit of a delta overhang here uh, and this is despite the fact that children were eligible to get vaccinated.

As of november 3rd, however, so far only 16.4 percent of children aged 5 to 11 in new york city are actually fully vaccinated. 27 percent have had one dose. Kids 12 to 17 are about 75 percent vaccinated with at least one dose. So unfortunately, this surge came before more uh.

It could get vaccinated, but then again a lot of folks are saying: hey, you know, you're still going to get it now. Would that have prevented these hospitalizations, possibly, obviously that is what the vaccine manufacturers tell us. That's what studies tell us, but i know many of us listening to this kind of data are exhausted by research. At this point, uh and - and you know my stance - i'm pro-choice - i do recommend you get vaccinated, though i'm not paid to say that either and i don't own any money in vaccine stocks.

It's just it's just my belief, i'm just being fat, but i'm not gon na force it on you, okay, i respect you anyway. According to john hopkins, the u.s uh has an average right now of about 194, a thousand cases per day, that's 47 higher than where we were a week ago, and debts are also up about 17 over the same period, but again, probably some delta overhang here. Australia also had its first death link to omicron. That death was listened to this folks in a fully vaccinated man in his 80s living in a care home with underlying health conditions.

Unfortunately, this is the only information that we have, but this is one of those sad cases where somebody who was vaccinated did try to go out of their way to do. The right thing did end up dying, very likely from omicron, though they did have other underlying conditions. Now dr fauci is recommending that we have a travel vaccine mandate for flights. This is obviously not very popular a lot of airlines sunk in stock trading today partially because of this, we have israel starting their uh trials on their fourth covet shot already, 150 medical workers have participated in the trial and have received their fourth booster shot.

It's because a lot of people got their first boosters, so their third shot in the summer. Well, now we're six months past. That already right so here come the never ending chain of shots whatever, and on top of this - and this was a little like morbid - this uh research did not include any mention of omicron. I went through the actual uh statistics and the actual research report, but in a paper published by scientists at the u.s national institute of health, they found that covet coronavirus uh, this particular coven-19, is capable of replicating in human cells, quote well beyond the respiratory tract that The results indicate a delayed viral clearance as a potential contributor to persistent symptoms for long covet sufferers, in other words, because it takes so long to get this this disease out of your body completely.

It could be causing covet long in people and kind of explains why some people are have these these uh lingering feelings of fatigue or heart issues or or brain fog. The paper also tries to help explain why some people have mild or asymptomatic covid, but still experience long covet now. This paper has not yet been reviewed by independent scientists, but the research which is based on a sampling of 44 patients who died after catching coven. In other words, they were sliced up and studied shows that covet was found in multiple parts of their body throughout the brain as much as 230 days after catching covet.

You still got that thing lingering inside of you sucking life out of you. The study also provides data supporting previous research, that kova directly kills heart muscle cells and those who survive may suffer cognitive deficits. According to the university of new south wales, researchers suggest that infection of the pulmonary system may result in an early uh, essential phase where the virus is present in the bloodstream and is then seeded through the entire body, including across the blood-brain barrier. Even in patients experiencing mild covet symptoms, so wow no talk about omicron in this, but this is something that omicron hasn't been around long enough for us to determine this.

But this is something a lot of people are nervous about with omicron. It's like look, i'm not so worried about the cold. It's just am i going to end up with long covered right and we have that brain fog or fatigue even for three months. You know, that's that sucks it takes uh.

It takes work out of your. You know schedule and - and that means less dala hollas for you anyway. Folks. Thank you so much for watching this video.

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