Today is Wednesday December eight we're talking about a covert nineteen milestone. What's changed exactly two years after the very first cases were reported and what scientists expect for the eventual end of the pandemic. Also, the latest unusual, whether threat out of hawaii, plus how five g could cause flight delays, new features from instagram, including on. That tells you to turn off the app and which tik tok trends got the most it. Tension and twenty twenty one welcome. to that is worthy. The today's news in around ten minutes, fast, fair fund and on the go I may come Andy thanks, so much for being here, you're ready. Let's do this

exactly two years ago today, the very first cases of a mysterious new respiratory virus popped up and move on China. Now we know what it was covered. Nineteen since then, there have been more than two hundred sixty seven million confirmed, covert nineteen cases around the world and about five point: three million das. Of course the world has also made huge strides

it's over the last couple of years to fight the virus. We learned all about social distancing, mask wearing contact, tracing and quarantines manufacturers started speeding up the production of personal protective equipment and ventilators for healthcare workers to use, and by the end of April, twenty twenty former president trump launched operation warp speed to get a coven nineteen vaccine made as soon as possible. Vaccine makers got to work and the first one was authorized eight months later in december of two thousand and twenty now the? U S has three vaccine options as well as antibody treatments and anti viral drugs for treating severe cases of copd nineteen. There are also widespread testing options, including at home tests. Still, the pandemic seems far from

If are on average, more than one hundred and twenty one thousand americans are testing positive for cocaine nineteen each day and more than one thousand six hundred americans are dying from it every day. So how will the pandemic end? Well, most scientists agree: the pandemic will likely become an endemic, and that means coven. Nineteen will probably never totally go away, but as more people get either vaccinated or exposed to the virus, new cases will start rising at a much lower rate and fewer people will get severe police sick from it. In other words, its likely the spread of covert nineteen will look and feel more like the seasonal flu. What's not clear is exactly when that might happen. Scientists say it depends on how many people decide to get back needed and how the population responds to new variant. Unfortunately, The pandemic has had damaging effects on kids. Well being this week, the? U s search engine girl issued a rare public health advisory over a youth. Mental health crisis is report, doktor, viva mercy said

well. Health issues among kids were already widespread in the spring of two thousand and twenty, but the pandemic made them much worse. He cited big increases in kids, reporting their depressed or anxious, and emergency room visits for suicide. Attempts rose quite a bit. The exact reasons for these issues, though, are pretty complex. report says adolescent brain chemistry plays a role as well as relationships with family and friends, and so does a fast pace, media culture that can leave young minds feeling helpless, but some doctors point out its nuclear of kids. Mental health is so much worse than used to be or if it might be, that issues like depression and anxiety are more openly discussed now than they were in the past either way at this Jen. Generals advisory calls for more resources to be devoted to addressing mental health challenges, not just from the government, but also social media companies, community groups, schools, parents, healthcare workers and other kids in a crisis. Any one can call the suicide prevention lifeline at one. Eight hundred to seven three talk. We ve also posted links at our episode, notes to many other

mental health resources that might be able to help kids dealing with various issues. As expected, president Biden, at some strong warnings for russian counterpart this week bite and had a two hour video call with russia's vladimir putin. Most of that time was spent on a potential conflict with ukraine remember, the american intelligence community has been warning. Russia is preparing to invade ukraine and american ally as soon as next month, while president Biden told president putin if there is a military invasion, the? U s and its allies will respond with tough economic penalties and the euro is prepared to give Ukraine more assistance to defend itself. That might even include american troops already up to hundred thousand russian troops. Have ukraine surrounded, but on yesterday's call putin told bite in russia should not have to withdraw its troops from its own territory. When quote, they do not threaten anyone. Putin also brought up his concerns about western info

once in ukraine. He asked for guarantees that nato would not expand its membership to include ukraine and the nato, would not deploy missile systems to any countries bordering russia, and there can differ then their nato allies have called those requests non starters. So the white house called it a useful meeting. The two leaders also talk about cyber security concerns, as well as IRAN's nuclear ambitions. Hawaii has then getting hammered by unusually severe weather this week, more than a foot of rain has now fallen in parts of the state over the last three days, and even or rain is expected today, flash flood warnings and flood watches are in effect through this afternoon. Some

The hardest hit areas are on the island of a war who were the states capital of Honolulu as an were most hawaiians live. Thankfully reports don't say anyone was seriously hurt in the storms, but dozens of people, including a group of young boys, had to be rescued from floodwaters. Roads were washed out, homes were damaged and trees came crashing down. Thousands of customers are also dealing with power outages. This morning the governor declared a state of emergency to get resources. To be Well, who need them and for shelters are now open in Honolulu. The rain is expected to let up by tomorrow, but because so much has fallen, ready the national. Whether service says, there's a threat of landslides through the air. the weak areas, we have much more news still ahead, but first, let's take a break to thank our sponsor. It was the last time you got on a bike and actually wanted to go up a steep hill you can, with e bikes, is probably why you keep hearing about them. People who use rad power bike say it's completely transformed everyday life. Here's the best part, because rad power bikes is north america's law

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before the pandemic in twenty nineteen experts say, traffic likely is not back to normal, because many workers are still not going back into the office full time. The transportation research firm in rick's looked at data from october in more than a thousand it is for this traffic. Steady five g may cause flight delays. Really. As the verge reports, pilots rely on radio alto, return to tell how high they are above the ground when they can't see helping them land safely. So these guys It is an automatic landing systems are needed in poor visibility, but the affair is warning nearly seven thousand planes in the? U s handsome helicopters that they could not use those systems at certain airports because of five g interference, and that could mean flight delays in diversions in low visibility. Already reuters reports, their five and expansion and agreed to delay their launch of their five g expansion plans and the FDA concerns. Still the FDA says, five g will safely coexist with aviation and updated guidance is expected in the coming weeks

an outrage at amazon web services cause problems for big chunks of the internet. First people had trouble getting onto amazon's website and they couldn't access some of their amazon products like the elects a I assistant, kindle ebooks and security cameras from ring warehouse in delivery workers also say the ads that keep track of the packages and tell them where to go when down, but it didn't just affect amazon. Since amazon web services is the world's largest cloud computing platform. There were reports of outages for disney plus and netflix streaming, as well as certain online video games. Tinder ticketmaster rogue, who coin base then mo and many more all tied back to the amazon. the issue mostly impacted people on the east coast. They They started noticing problems that around eleven a m eastern yesterday, as problems at around eleven am eastern. Yesterday, as of last night, amazon said, most services had been cover today. The headed

The aps effects on its youngest users adversary is such a testified before congress. For the first time, lawmakers will actually want to know what instagram knows about any harm causes young people and what the company plans to do about it. Of course, instagram is owned by mehta, which recently changed its name from facebook, and the entire company has faced a lot of scrutiny after internal documents in greece tire company has faced a lot of scrutiny after internal documents, and research were leaked earlier this year, while just one day before the testimony, de, for example, there is a feature called it, take a break that will ask users to stop using the app after ten, twenty or thirty minutes of scrolling and, as the name suggests, take more breaks that one was rolled out this week. Instagram says more feature should be available to all users by early next year,

Next year, a lot of this year's biggest trans came from the video sharing app tik tok, but which ones where most popular tik tok released a top ten list this week. That includes everything from dance moves to recipes to fashion, to cute animals to lifestyle hawks. The platform says the number one posted the year was a drone recorded video of a man dancing to the song stay by the killer. Roy and justin bieber number two in the list is a chipmunk hiding nuts in its mouth and number three all about organisation. It's a clip of a woman. And number three is all about organization. It's a clip of a woman restocking. Her drawers fridge in cupboards takes acts as all its top videos are those that quote make up some of the years biggest moments and have like counts in the millions. As of September Tik tok said it has one billion users every today, but now it's time for work wednesday. When we break down one interesting career or work related news story, every wednesday, the first, let's take a quick break to thank our sponsor. A new study by the national alliance on mental illness found sixty four percent of people living with

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occurs can expect raises. In the new year a new conference board survey says companies are setting aside an average of four percent of their total payroll for salary increases, that's the biggest jump since two thousand. Eight, of course, that's all great news for workers, but it could also mean higher prices for consumers, since some companies mere to compensate for pay increases. Inflation has already been a key concern for a lot of americans, and just last week the federal reserve chairman said concern for a lot of americans, and just last week the federal reserve chairman said: inflation will linger into the new year. In this case, though, economists say, some of the problem might also be the solution. Many the workers needed more money to live in today's world. So some experts are predicting what needed more money to live in today's world, so some experts are predicting what they call a wage price spiral where we see fast increases in both salaries and prices. Although the fed has also promised to address inflation

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