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Voices/The Economist/Beginning of the endemic? Omicron’s spread

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Beginning of the endemic? Omicron’s spread

The lightning-fast spread of a seemingly milder coronavirus variant may represent a shift from pandemic to endemic; we ask how that would change global responses. Concern about video-game addictiveness is as old as video games themselves—but the busine...

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December 27, 2021

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22 min

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Beginning of the endemic? Omicron’s spread

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<p>The lightning-fast <a href="https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/12/22/omicron-covid-cases-are-less-severe-than-delta-new-studies-say?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">spread</a> of a seemingly milder coronavirus variant may represent a shift from pandemic to endemic; we ask how that would change global responses. Concern about video-game addictiveness is as old as video games themselves—but the business models of modern gaming may be <a href="https://www.economist.com/business/china-imposes-the-worlds-strictest-limits-on-video-games/21804100?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">magnifying the problem</a>. And newly publicised <a href="https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/12/14/a-trove-of-photographs-casts-light-on-bangladeshs-liberation-war?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">photographs</a> shed light on Bangladesh’s brutal war for independence.</p><p>For full access to print, digital and audio editions of <em>The Economist</em>, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a></p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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