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News Release - April 30, 2012
Hologic to Acquire Gen-Probe
Creates Leading Diagnostics Franchise Focused on Women's Health Transaction Delivers Attractive Economics with Strong Growth and Margin Profile; $0.20 Accretive to Hologic's Adjusted EPS in First Fiscal Year After Close
Companies to Host Conference Call at 8:15 AM ET Today
BEDFORD, Mass. and SAN DIEGO, April 30, 2012 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Hologic, Inc. (HOLX) and Gen-Probe Incorporated (GPRO) today announced that their Boards of Directors have unanimously approved a definitive agreement under which Hologic will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Gen-Probe for $82.75 per share in cash, or a total enterprise value of approximately $3.7 billion. The all-cash transaction is expected to be funded through available cash and additional financing of term loans and high yield securities. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of calendar 2012.
The transaction delivers a strong growth profile with attractive economics and is expected to be $0.20 accretive to Hologic's adjusted earnings per share in the first fiscal year after close and significantly more accretive thereafter. Hologic also expects the transaction to accelerate top and bottom line growth rates. The combined company expects to realize approximately $75 million in cost synergies within three years following the close of the transaction. In addition, the combined company expects to have strong free cash flows, which will be used primarily to reduce debt with the expectation to return to pre-transaction leverage levels within three years.
Gen-Probe is a leader in molecular diagnostics products and services, making it a highly complementary addition to Hologic's growing diagnostics portfolio. The combined company will have pro forma LTM revenues of approximately $2.4 billion, adjusted EBITDA of $822 million (excluding synergies) and offer a wide spectrum of health products globally. The transaction allows Hologic to combine Gen-Probe's superior automation platforms of TIGRIS and PANTHER and extensive menu of sexually transmitted disease (STD) tests, including the APTIMA line of Chlamydia/Gonorrhea (CT/NG), human papillomavirus (HPV) and Trichomonas products, with its strong global market presence and distribution – all targeting women's health. In addition, Gen-Probe's PROCLEIX line of HIV, HCV, HBV, and West Nile Virus (WNV) blood screening products and strong partnership with Novartis provide an attractive market, with a global reach and significant growth opportunities for the combined company. The combined company expects to create additional value through significant cross-selling opportunities, utilizing the combined global sales force and complementary research and development (R&D) and operational capabilities.
Rob Cascella, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hologic, said, "Gen-Probe is an ideal partner and strategic fit to Hologic's existing diagnostics business and complements our focus on scaling and diversifying our diagnostics franchise. Gen-Probe is a unique player in molecular diagnostics, with best-in-class technology, including the differentiating automation capabilities of TIGRIS and PANTHER, a broad menu of tests, such as the recently approved APTIMA HPV and Trichomonas assays, and a leading blood screening business. This transaction establishes Hologic as a premier company in STD diagnostics and advances our core focus on women's health. With unique capabilities and an impressive new product pipeline, our combined company will be well positioned globally to capitalize on the fast-growing molecular diagnostics market with an established global infrastructure."
Mr. Cascella continued, "Through this compelling transaction, we will achieve critical mass in our core diagnostics business and meet the needs of our customers with a broader portfolio of diagnostics technology, automation and connectivity solutions. With the combination of our capabilities, Hologic will operate a diagnostics franchise with the growth potential similar to our breast health franchise."
Carl Hull, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gen-Probe, said, "This transaction provides compelling cash value for our shareholders and represents an outstanding opportunity for our business. Together, Gen-Probe and Hologic will be very well-positioned to pursue a complete range of diagnostic opportunities in women's health, with a stronger focus on the dynamic molecular diagnostics market. Specifically, we are excited about the opportunity to increase demand for our APTIMA women's health products based on Hologic's global commercial presence. Our employees will benefit as part of a larger diversified organization with the necessary scale and resources to be a leader in today's rapidly evolving global healthcare marketplace."
Strategic Benefits of the Combination
Enhances breadth of molecular diagnostics portfolio: Gen-Probe's impressive, fully automated product franchise complements and broadens Hologic's offerings in women's health and diagnostics. Gen-Probe adds the marketed instrument brands TIGRIS and PANTHER, as well as the APTIMA line of CT/NG, HPV and Trichomonas assays, to Hologic's diagnostics portfolio. In addition, exciting new products in infectious disease testing and transplant diagnostics provide opportunities for future growth outside of women's health.
Expands international presence: The combined company will benefit from a broader global presence doing business in a total of over 150 countries. Hologic intends to market Gen-Probe's products on a global basis, focusing in both developed and emerging markets around the world. With Hologic's direct sales and marketing structure in Europe, and its investment in China distribution, the growth trajectory of Gen-Probe's products is significantly enhanced. In particular, Hologic has over 500 employees focused on diagnostics in China.
Cross-selling opportunities: The combined company anticipates significant cross-selling opportunities within its diagnostics franchise due to Hologic's extensive channel coverage and the addition of Gen-Probe's best-in-class assays. Hologic's physician sales team will be instrumental in growing test utilization, driving compliance and communicating screening guidelines to increase overall organic growth.
Positions combined company for sustained growth: It is anticipated that recent new product introductions will provide sustainable growth for the next several years. In addition the combined pipeline of ongoing initiatives are expected to provide growth into the future.
Experienced management team and employees: The combination of these businesses brings together the experienced leadership of two successful companies capable of sustaining long term future growth.
Financial Benefits of the Combination
Strong financial profile and diversified revenue mix: The pro forma LTM revenues of the combined company total approximately $2.4 billion with combined adjusted EBITDA of $822 million, excluding synergies. The combined company will have a diversified portfolio of products with a core focus on diagnostics and breast health, and solid positions in surgical, blood screening and skeletal markets.
Delivers significant synergies: Hologic expects to realize annual cost synergies of approximately $75 million within three years following the close of the transaction, with approximately $40 million anticipated in the first year after the close of the transaction. Savings are expected to be realized through the alignment of assets to maximize efficiencies and overhead consolidation. In addition, it is anticipated that cross selling opportunities will provide potential for further meaningful revenue enhancement.
Accretive to earnings: Hologic expects the combination to be $0.20 accretive to Hologic's adjusted earnings per share in the first fiscal year after close and significantly more accretive thereafter. Hologic also expects the transaction to accelerate top and bottom line growth rates.
Robust free cash flows: The combined company expects to have strong free cash flows, which will be used primarily to reduce debt, with the expectation to return to pre-transaction leverage levels within three years.
The all-cash transaction is expected to be funded through available cash and additional financing of term loans and high yield securities. Hologic has secured fully committed financing from Goldman Sachs Bank USA and Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC.
Headquarters and Management
Following the close of the transaction, Gen-Probe will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hologic. Hologic will retain its headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts, and the combined company will maintain a significant presence in San Diego, California.
Rob Cascella will continue as President and Chief Executive Officer of Hologic and Carl Hull, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gen-Probe, will oversee the company's combined diagnostics business.
Terms and Approvals
The transaction is expected to close in the second half of calendar 2012 and is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including approval of Gen-Probe's shareholders and expiration of the applicable waiting periods under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and necessary foreign clearances.
Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Perella Weinberg Partners are acting as financial advisors to Hologic and Brown Rudnick LLP and Jones Day are acting as legal advisors. Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is acting as financial advisor to Gen-Probe and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Cooley LLP are acting as legal advisors.
Hologic and Gen-Probe management will host a conference call at 8:15 a.m. (Eastern) to discuss today's announcement, Hologic's second fiscal quarter 2012 results and Gen-Probe's first quarter 2012 results. Interested participants may listen to the call by dialing 877-856-1962 (for callers within the U.S.) or 719-325-4863 (for international callers) and referencing code 4975261 approximately 15 minutes prior to the call. The webcast and accompanying slides can be accessed at www.hologic.com or www.gen-probe.com.
A replay of the call will be available through May 18, 2012 at 888-203-1112 (for callers within the U.S.) or 719-457-0820 (for international callers), access code 4975261, and at www.hologic.com or www.gen-probe.com.
Supporting materials for the conference call, including a presentation, will be available on the Investor Relations sections of Hologic's and Gen-Probe's websites at http://investors.hologic.com and www.gen-probe.com, respectively.
About Hologic
Hologic, Inc. is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostics products, medical imaging systems and surgical products dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women. Hologic's core business units are focused on breast health, diagnostics, GYN surgical, and skeletal health. Hologic provides a comprehensive suite of technologies with products for mammography and breast biopsy, breast magnetic resonance imaging, radiation treatment for early-stage breast cancer, cervical cancer screening, treatment for menorrhagia and uterine fibroids, osteoporosis assessment, preterm birth risk assessment, mini C-arm for extremity imaging and molecular diagnostic products including reagents for a variety of DNA and RNA analysis applications. For more information, visit www.hologic.com.
Hologic and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Hologic, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries.
About Gen-Probe
Gen-Probe Incorporated is a global leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of rapid, accurate and cost-effective molecular diagnostic products and services that are used primarily to diagnose human diseases, screen donated human blood, and ensure transplant compatibility. Gen-Probe is headquartered in San Diego and employs approximately 1,400 people. For more information, go to http://www.gen-probe.com.
Gen-Probe, APTIMA, PANTHER and TIGRIS and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Gen-Probe Incorporated and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. PROCLEIX is a trademark of Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Inc.
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Hologic, Inc. (the "Company") has presented the following non-GAAP financial measures in this press release: adjusted net income and adjusted EBITDA of each of Hologic and Gen-Probe, and pro forma adjusted net income, adjusted EPS and adjusted EBITDA of the combined company. The Company defines its non-GAAP adjusted net income and adjusted EPS to exclude the non-cash amortization of intangible assets, other acquisition-related charges, such changes for contingent consideration, transaction costs and charges associated with the write-up of acquired inventory to fair value, non-cash interest expense related to amortization of the debt discount for convertible debt securities, divestiture and restructuring charges, non-cash loss on exchange of convertible notes, and one-time, nonrecurring, unusual or unanticipated charges, expenses or gains. The Company's non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA excludes from its GAAP net income: (i) the items excluded in its calculation of non-GAAP adjusted net income; (ii) interest expense, net, not otherwise excluded in calculating its non-GAAP adjusted net income; (iii) provision for income taxes; and (iv) depreciation expense.
The reconciliations of these historical non-GAAP measures to the combined company's comparable GAAP financial measures for the periods presented, are set forth in the supplemental information attached to this press release. Future GAAP EPS may be affected by changes in ongoing assumptions and judgments relating to the combined company's acquired businesses, and may also be affected by nonrecurring, unusual or unanticipated charges, expenses or gains, all of which are excluded in the calculation of non-GAAP adjusted net income, adjusted EPS and adjusted EBITDA as described in this press release. It is therefore not practicable to reconcile this non-GAAP guidance to the most comparable GAAP measure.
The Company believes the use of these non-GAAP metrics are useful to investors in comparing the results of operations for comparable periods by eliminating certain of the more significant effects of its acquisitions and related activities, non-cash charges resulting from changes in GAAP, and litigation settlement, divestiture and restructuring. These measures also reflect how the Company manages the business internally. In addition to the adjustments included in the calculation of the Company's non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA eliminates the effects of financing, income taxes and the accounting effects of capital spending. As with the items eliminated in its calculation of non-GAAP adjusted net income, these items may vary for different companies for reasons unrelated to the overall operating performance of a company's business. When analyzing the Hologic's, Gen-Probe's and the pro forma combined company's operating performance, investors should not consider these non-GAAP financial measures as a substitute for net income prepared in accordance with GAAP.
In connection with the proposed transaction, Gen-Probe will file a proxy statement and other materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). GEN-PROBE URGES INVESTORS TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND THESE OTHER MATERIALS CAREFULLY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT GEN-PROBE AND THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION. Investors may obtain free copies of the proxy statement (when available) as well as other filed documents containing information about Gen-Probe at http://www.sec.gov, the SEC's free internet site. Free copies of Gen-Probe's SEC filings including the proxy statement (when available) are also available on Gen-Probe's internet site at http://www.gen-probe.com under "Investors."
Gen-Probe and its executive officers and directors may be deemed, under SEC rules, to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from Gen-Probe's stockholders with respect to the proposed transaction. Information regarding the officers and directors of Gen-Probe is included in the Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on April 5, 2012 with respect to the 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Gen-Probe. More detailed information regarding the identity of the potential participants, and their direct or indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, will be set forth in the proxy statement and other materials to be filed with the SEC in connection with the proposed transaction.
Forward Looking Statement Disclaimer
This News Release contains forward-looking information that involves risks and uncertainties, including statements about Hologic's and Gen-Probe's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. Such statements include, without limitation, statements about the timing of the completion of the transaction, the anticipated benefits thereof, including anticipated future financial and operating results of the combined companies, the expected permanent financing for the transaction, other of Hologic's and Gen-Probe's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions, and other statements that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements may contain words such as "expect," "believe," "may," "can," "should," "will," "forecast," "anticipate," or similar expressions (including their use in the negative), and include assumptions that underlie such statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements, including but not limited to: the ability of the parties to consummate the proposed merger in a timely manner or at all; satisfaction of the conditions precedent to consummation of the proposed merger, including the ability to secure regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, and approval by Gen-Probe's stockholders; the possibility of litigation (including related to the merger itself); successful completion of anticipated financing arrangements; Hologic's ability to successfully and timely integrate Gen-Probe's operations, product lines, technologies and employees, and realize synergies from the proposed transaction; unknown, underestimated or undisclosed commitments or liabilities; effects of purchase accounting that may be different from expectations; the level of demand for the combined company's products; the ability of the combined company to develop, deliver and support a broad range of products, develop new products, expand its markets and/or develop new markets; and the ability of the combined company to attract, motivate and retain key employees. Moreover, the combined business may be adversely affected by future legislative, regulatory, or tax changes as well as other economic, business and/or competitive factors. The risks included above are not exhaustive. Other factors that could adversely affect the combined company's business and prospects are described in the combined company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The companies expressly disclaim any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statements presented herein to reflect any change in the combined company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements are based.
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47 Years After Creation, Nigeria's National Arbovirus And Vector Research Centre Struggles To Fulfill Mandate
The NAVRC appears to be the most inefficient in the Ministry of Health, as details of funding and output in the last five years shows.
The National Arbovirus and Vector Research Centre is the focus of the fourth part of a Civic Media Lab series on the performance of health agencies in Nigeria. The NAVRC appears to be the most inefficient in the Ministry of Health, as details of funding and output in the last five years shows.
The centre was allocated meagre funding for its capital expenditure between 2015 and 2019. Civic Media Lab observed that the centre, saddled with the responsibility of identifying and controlling the vector-borne diseases, was given only N454.75m in five years.
The agency's projects received approval to draw down on over N100m in the period within the lab's scope. Data mined from its budget revealed that it was allocated a little over N100m twice in five years. Interestingly, the presence of a yellow fever outbreak in 2019 was not enough reason to jerk up the centre's capital expenditure budget beyond N50m.
The low budgetary ration meant that the centre was limited to reporting the outbreak of yellow fever in five states out of a possible 27 that reported one suspected case since the epidemic broke out in Kwara State in September 2017. As at August 2019, the agency had carried out yellow fever surveillance in three states, an insect study report in four others and a 'rapid response' in one. It had also succeeded in setting up a sentinel point for early detection and warning in the three locations it surveyed, out of the 24 it hoped to have established by December 2019.
In the five years under review, NAVRC obtained approval for one research which reoccurred two times. The said study theme, which was described as an 'implementation research,' was not among the five reports, nine kinds of research and one publication CML found on the centre's website.
Over-budgeting or miscalculation
In 2015, NAVRC received N99.47m for the payment of salaries, overheads and emoluments. It earned approval for N17.09m for capital spending.
The agency went on to list two projects worth N20m – N2.91m more than it was assigned, for its unfixed expenditure. None of the two-line items was related to research, development or surveillance. One of them was for the training of core trainers on the field, laboratory and insect study techniques, for the teaching of health workers, which is well within the scope of their mandate. The other was for the provision of internet facilities. [story_link align="left"]80553[/story_link]
Budget implementation reports and budget presentations by present and past presidents have established that the federal government rarely fulfils 100 per cent of its capital expenditure commitment; this means despite these meagre allocations, the agency might not have received the full provision.
A federal appendage of the Anambra State Government
Civic Media Lab found 10 publications on the centre's website. One of the pieces was a research on the first discovery of a species of yellow fever carrying mosquito, published in 1992. Two were published in 2013; another was a joint paper with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on the response to the outbreak in Kwara State. The remaining six were published between 2015 and 2019, one of which was an explanatory piece on arboviruses.
Out of these nine kinds of research, six were studies conducted in Anambra State, one was the 1992 study done in Delta State, the other was the Yellow fever response paper in Kwara State and the last one was a study on the mental content of water in a site in Jos, the Plateau State capital. The research in Jos is outside the scope of the organisation's duties.
Two of the mandates given to NAVRC read, "Study ecology, bionomics, distribution and seasonal variation of disease vectors especially arbovirus vectors – diseases carried by insects and 'identify and incriminate – control principal arbovirus and other disease vectors in Nigeria'."
The centre showed evidence of carrying out its surveillance responsibility in five states on its website between 2015 and 2019, despite receiving approval to execute that particular mandate in the six geopolitical zones within the period under the scope. [story_link align="left"]80704[/story_link]
In 2018 and 2019, the centre received approval to draw down on N78m for an 'Implementation Research: Building Sustainable Structural Barriers against Arbovirus Vectors and Monitoring Impact on Disease Burden.' No evidence of such research was found on the Centre's site.
In contrast, not one of the survey themes it conducted in Anambra was represented in the budget. The field studies of the centre were concentrated in one location, according to data found on its site, while an active Yellow Fever outbreak was ongoing in all states of the federation.
An unmet mandate
NAVRC said on its website that it was established in 1973, in response to a Yellow Fever outbreak. The Federal Ministry of Health had, after a 1969 and 1973 outbreak of Yellow Fever, approached the World Health Organisation to develop a response to disease-carrying insects. The WHO, the Federal Government and the Anambra State Government reached an agreement in 1981 that saw the field centre set-up eight years prior, become a vector control research agency.
Some of the mandates given to this agency are to "conduct field disease vector surveillance and control throughout Nigeria; study ecology, bionomics, distribution and seasonal variation of disease vectors especially arbovirus vectors – diseases carried by insects; identify and incriminate – control principal arbovirus and other disease vectors in Nigeria; train middle level manpower in field, laboratory and entomology – insect study techniques; and screen Nigerian plants to determine their pesticidal properties". [story_link align="left"]80810[/story_link]
CML noticed that in five years, the agency received N28m to carry out surveillance of Yellow Fever, dengue and zika viruses in the six geopolitical zones of the country. In 2017, it received an approval of N109m however, to conduct quarterly disease surveys in the North-Central zone alone.
In an August 5, 2019 news post, the centre said it had trained disease vector surveillance officers in Benue, Niger and Nasarawa and established sentinel stations in the states as well. In a later post the same month, the centre said it conducted training for DVSO's in Ebonyi and Anambra states. It said the lecture was a precursor to starting surveillance in the three locations. However, there was no evidence of the actual surveillance on the centre's site. There was also no detail of the surveillance conducted in the three North-Central states where sentinel stations were set-up.
Between January and July of 2019, 1,905 Yellow Fever cases had been reported in all the states of the federation and the agency did not seem to be playing a key role in dealing with the epidemic.
According to reports, the same species of mosquitoes that transmit Yellow Fever are also responsible for dengue and several other neglected tropical diseases. The symptoms are often similar; hence little evidence of Dengue has been recorded in the country, despite NAVRC saying in some of its research in Anambra and its rapid response report in Bauchi that there are dengue transmitting mosquitoes in the two states.
Arboviruses (Arthropod born viruses) are infections transmitted by insects, including spiders, scorpions, ticks, and others. NAVRC's research interest has veered beyond mosquitoes just once when its staff studied house flies in a community in Anambra State.
Working in silos?
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has the responsibility of responding to and containing disease outbreaks in the country. Following the study of the research done by NAVRC, CML figured that both agencies should have a working relationship in dealing with outbreaks caused by insects.
This is only evident in the research paper on the response to the yellow fever outbreak in Kwara State by the NCDC. NAVRC is not listed as one of the reference laboratories the NCDC uses to test for yellow fever cases – a test which often brings out inconclusive results. Many of the Yellow Fever samples tested by the NCDC are transported to a WHO reference laboratory, Institute Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal.
The NCDC also runs a national field epidemiological lab training programme, which the NAVRC has not shown in its researches, reports and news posts to be part of. The NCDC, in its last Yellow Fever update for the week ending January 31 2020, said some of the challenges it encountered in dealing with the Yellow Fever outbreak in the country included, "low index of suspicion of YF among health care providers, poor documentation of YF surveillance in many health facilities across states and poor support for outbreak investigation and response at the state level."
The centre had inadvertently accused the NAVRC of failing to train health workers across the country, to sight and respond to arbovirus outbreaks. It had also implied that the NAVRC was unable to set-up a structure that enabled states to take action in the case of an outbreak.
This is a problem the NCDC is appearing to solve without the NAVRC, through its field epidemiological programme. The NCDC often refers to the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, when reporting on its multi-agency approach to emergency responses to insect-baring disease outbreaks.
The NAVRC did not mention sending any of its findings to the disease control body and often conducted its insect studies when NCDC had already confirmed a case of yellow fever. NCDC reported an outbreak of yellow fever in Alkaleri LGA in Bauchi in August 2019, while NAVRC conducted its 'rapid response' three months later. CML had hoped to find evidence in either the NCDC' or NAVRC's reports that the latter was able to control the vector causing an outbreak, leading to the end of the epidemic, but none was found.
As it stands, the NAVRC seems not to have found usefulness 47 years after the WHO partnership with the Federal Ministry of Health that midwife it. It is no wonder its role in the COVID-19 battle has been limited to a sensitisation outreach to a cattle market in Enugu State.
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November 29, 2021 American Society
Panic Is a Lifestyle Brand
by Noah Rothman
If you didn't spend the Thanksgiving holiday weekend glued to the news, you might be confused as to the origins of a global panic over a new COVID variant that spread rapidly even for this highly transmissible disease. That confusion is probably deepened because the panic is already subsiding as those less inclined to mass hysteria join the conversation.
Late Thursday evening, what was still only known as the B.1.1.529 variant became the subject of a dire all-points bulletin via the World Health Organization. The mutation, first detected in South Africa, has the potential to spread more quickly and could evade the protections provided by both natural and vaccine-provided antibodies, the group warned. With that, the world descended into a state of paralytic alarm.
Global markets collapsed. U.S. stock indexes suffered their biggest one-day percentage decline since February. The United States raced to impose a travel ban on a handful of African nations believed to have incubated this "variant of concern" effective Monday, though cases were soon detected in Western Europe and Canada. America joined 44 countries restricting travel from Sub-Saharan Africa, while nations such as Japan, Morocco, and Israel blocked foreign nationals from entering their borders altogether. New York's Gov. Kathy Hochul preemptively suspended elective surgeries for the first time since 2020 in anticipation of a "spike" of new hospitalizations.
By Sunday, this new COVID anomaly had a name, "Omicron," and U.S. officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci were warning that a new round of lockdowns could be necessary to prevent its spread. It "may not actually be a big deal," he said, "but we want to make sure that we're prepared for the worst."
If all you had heard about this new iteration of COVID was the apoplectic tone of the coverage around it, Fauci's words sound prudent enough. By Sunday, however, hints of skepticism began to creep into the coverage of the variant. After all, what we don't know about it is as much cause for concern as it is for cautious optimism.
The chair of South Africa's Medical Association, Dr. Angelique Coetzee, told the BBC that the globe was "panicking unnecessarily." The Omicron patients she has had first-hand experience with presented "very, very mild symptoms." None required dramatic interventions, and all were treated "conservatively at home." South Africa's Health Minister Dr. Joe Phaahla confirmed that the "majority" of Omicron infections they're "seeing are mild."
Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, the head of Israel's public health services, came to a similar conclusion—Omicron spreads "very, very fast," but its spread has not yet been accompanied by worse outcomes for infected patients. "If it continues this way," one Israeli coronavirus expert said, "this might be a relatively mild illness compared to the delta variant, and paradoxically, if it takes over, it will lead to lower infection rates."
There is reason to be concerned by this variant. Its mutations could allow it to circumvent the protections provided by immunization or natural infection, but there is no evidence yet that it will evade those protections. Indeed, as University of California San Francisco virologist, Dr. Monica Gandhi told the Dispatch, "It's really hard for a variant to become more transmissible and more virulent." South Africa's specialists are only relating anecdotes, not clinical data. But the anecdotes are not just all we have; they're promising.
By the weekend's end, a correction was underway. "We know almost nothing about the Omicron variant," read the headline in the Atlantic. Omicron may be transmissible, but "it has a long way to go to take over from Delta," CNN reported. "And the long list of variants that at first frightened the world before falling off the map can be a reminder that viruses are unpredictable." The WHO sounded a similar note of overdue caution. "There is currently no information to suggest that symptoms associated with Omicron are different from those from other variants," a Sunday statement out of the organization read. "It is not yet clear whether Omicron is more transmissible" than its predecessors. "There's no reason to panic," NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins told CNN on Sunday morning, "but it's a great reason to get boosted." President Joe Biden did his best to relieve the stress that overtook opinion-makers on Monday. "We're going to fight and beat this new variant today," he said. But "not with shutdowns or lockdowns." Biden stressed that "this variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic."
But there was a panic. And if you have investments in the market or need crucial elective surgeries in the state of New York, it was a damaging one. Why was panic the default response of so much of the news-consuming world over the weekend? And why have sobriety and circumspection now returned to both media and markets? In part because panic has become a lifestyle choice among an influential few.
The revivification of COVID as an acute emergency led some particularly active communicators to retreat into the comfort of existential dread. Of this, one instructive Twitter thread produced by Boston University School of Public Health Associate Professor Dr. Ellie Murray was indicative. Yes, she wrote, we must continue to promote vaccines, disseminate rapid tests, and approve promising therapeutics. But we must also restore masking mandates, prepare for business closures, provide paid pandemic furloughs, legislate a constitutionally viable moratorium on evictions, force airlines to absorb the cost associated with socially distanced flights, take all winter social gatherings outside, and develop "clear triggers to switch to hybrid or remote" learning in schools.
That is a lot of confidence to assign to these mitigation measures when there is almost no confidence in the newly identified threat they are supposedly designed to mitigate against. There may yet come a time to panic over the emergence of this or future COVID mutations, but that time is not now. This sort of display is explicable only as a psychological orientation, not a considered response to a two-year-old public health crisis. Those who exhibit this peculiar orientation have outsized influence over the national discourse. As the weekend's anxiety suggests, it isn't helping.
Noah Rothman is the Associate Editor of Commentary and the author of Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America.
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Dad's Lunchbox by Xiang Yang (Hiong Iong) Related Content
Lau Seng-hian, PhD student, Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University
Dad's Lunchbox
(Translated by Tenn Nga-I)
Every morning Dad rose before the sun
Picked up his lunchbox
And rode his old bike down to the riverbed
Where he worked hauling gravel
At night I'd wonder
What was in Dad's lunchbox
Every morning my brother and I stuffed ourselves with steamed buns and soymilk
Dad must've had an egg in his lunchbox, at the very least
Otherwise, how'd he haul gravel all day?
It was still dark one morning
When I slipped into the kitchen and opened
Dad's lunchbox: no egg
Only pickled white radish and rice with shredded yam
Works of literature portraying parent-child relationships and themes of paternal love are often highly dramatic. Famous examples include Ronald Verlin Cassill's short story "The Father," Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, and even Theodore Roethke's poem "My Papa's Waltz," in which a boy expresses his feelings of love and awe for his father as they dance around the family kitchen. However, in Xiang Yang's "Dad's Lunchbox," a Taiwanese (Holo) poem that also portrays a son's admiration for his paternal parent, dramatization, plot, emotion, and voice are all deliberately understated, the poetic language simple and moving.
"Dad's Lunchbox" doesn't describe the working-class father in detail – the first stanza simply states that he awakens every morning before sunup and rides his bicycle to a streambed, where he works all day hauling gravel. Poet Xiang Yang writes from perspective of a curious child still too young to understand much of life. The son knows this father needs to keep up his strength to work as hard as he does, and assumes that his lunchbox must at least contain an egg.
Taiwan's postwar Taiwan economy was a shambles. For middle- and lower-class families, a chicken's egg was a luxury item, a holiday treat or a restorative for women who had just given birth. The poet writes: "Dad must've had an egg in his lunchbox, at the very least." The child's innocent voice hints at the family's poverty, also implying that he's aware of how hard his father works – all things considered, it wouldn't be unreasonable for the man to fortify himself with a daily egg, especially since his two sons enjoy a full breakfast of steamed buns and soymilk. Against this backdrop, the poem ultimately achieves drama in the last stanza. One morning, the boy arises before his father, steals into the kitchen, and peeks into his dad's lunchbox, hoping to find out what nutritious foods give him the energy to toil the whole day through. But the lunchbox contains "Only pickled white radish and rice with shredded yam." In the postwar era, families economized by cooking shredded sweet potato with rice, and pickled white radish (daikon) was a common household condiment. Nonetheless, the lunchbox is opened at the end of the poem not to call attention to Taiwan's postwar economic distress, but to show what up to now has been expressed only indirectly: The father's deep, abiding love for his family.
"Dad's Lunchbox" doesn't rely on rhyme to achieve effects, but in the last two lines "egg" (nn̄g) rhymes with "rice" (pn̄g), adding a finishing touch that brings the poem to a climactic and effective conclusion, the sounds echoing on in readers' minds. Written in 1976, the work heralded a revival of Taiwanese-language (Holo) literature, which had long been suppressed in the postwar period. In terms of grammar and vocabulary, we can observe the limitations the poet faced in writing in Taiwanese, as well as his consideration of reader needs in selecting Chinese characters to represent Taiwanese (Holo) words and concepts.
Jiang Baochai
Xiang Yang (1955- ) is the penname of Lin Qiyang, a native of Lugu in Nantou County. The writer holds a doctorate in journalism from National Chengchi University, and has served as editor-in-chief at China Times Weekly, deputy director and chief editor at Independence Evening Post, and chief editor at Nature quarterly. In 1985 he took part in the University of Iowa International Writers' Workshop. He has also served as board member and general secretary of the Wu Sanlian Historical Archives Foundation, Executive Yuan government affairs advisor, secretary of the Presidential Committee on Human Rights, and president of Taiwan P.E.N. Currently he is an associate professor at National Taipei University of Education's Graduate School of Taiwanese Culture and permanent council member of the Republic of China Modern Poets Association.
Xiang Yang has written essays, modern poetry, literary criticism, and children's literature, but is known primarily as a poet. In high school he served as chief editor of a poetry publication, his Taiwanese (Holo) verse and ten-line poetry winning him a place in Taiwanese poetry circles. In 1976 he published The Gingko's Hope, his first poetry collection, and has also issued the poetry journal Sunshine Collection. In recent years he has devoted himself to "Internet poetry," and has set up a number of personal websites. Xiang Yang is one of Taiwan's most experimental contemporary poets.
Chaos (2005), published sixteen years after Affairs of the Heart (1987), his previous poetry collection, is Xiang Yang's most representative work. In the period between the two collections' publications, the writer rose from assistant chief-editor to editor-in-chief at the Independence Evening Post. After enrolling in a journalism doctoral program at National Chengchi University, he spent the next nine years alternating between roles as teacher and student. More than a record of the twists and turns in the poet's life, Chaos also documents the social and political unrest that has marked Taiwanese society since ending of martial law.
Xiang Yang's essays are both rational and emotive. Beginning with The Wandering Tree (1979), he has published a total of eleven essay collections. In his critical writings, such as Drafting a Cultural Garden (2008), he is a strong exponent of nativist consciousness, a touching lyricism implicit within his rationality. In the field of children's literature he has published Chinese Myths (1983), a collection of stories, and Child in the Mirror, a book of children's poems, and has also translated Japanese poet Mado Michio's The Elephant's Nose Is Long (1996).
Work(Chinese): 〈阿爹的飯包〉
Work(English): Dad's Lunchbox
Anthology: Selected Works of Taiwan Poets, No. 58: Xiang Yang
Author: Xiang Yang (Hiong Iong)
Language: Traditional Chinese (Holo)
Translation(s): English
Translator: 鄭雅怡 (Tenn Nga-i)
Literary Genre: Poem
Publisher: Tainan City: National Museum of Taiwan Literature
Ordering information for original work(Link): http://www.books.com.tw/products/0010468836
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Ordering information for translation(Note): Unpublished Translation by the Literature Toolkit Project


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NHS England and UK Space Agency launch multi-million pound drive to improve patient care
The UK Space Agency has today announced that it is allocating up to £4 million to find hi-tech solutions to the major health and care challenges facing the NHS in its 70th anniversary year in a joint initiative with NHS England.
These challenges, outlined by NHS England's chief executive Simon Stevens in his speech to the NHS Confederation conference earlier this month, are:
Managing long term conditions including joining up health and care services
Earlier diagnosis of cancer
Transforming GP services and other primary care
Meeting mental health needs
Innovators will bid for money to turn technology originally designed for space, from exploration to satellite communications, into medical applications that improve NHS treatment and care.
Up to four applications will receive UK Space Agency funding to develop their ideas along with support and advice from the body, NHS England and the European Space Agency.
Previous examples of space tech being adapted for NHS use include a pill camera that can be swallowed by patients, dementia tracking slippers, breast screening vans that beam images back to assessment centres, wearable monitors to help prevent falls among the elderly and apps that help prevent skin cancer.
Professor Tony Young, NHS England's national clinical director for innovation, said: "Throughout its 70 year history the NHS has been at the forefront of healthcare innovation.
"Through this competition we are seeking the latest greatest, ideas and technical solutions to help address the modern challenges facing our health and care services."
The UK's space industry builds 40 per cent of the world's small satellites and 25 per cent of the world's telecommunications satellites. It supports 40,000 jobs and generates £14 billion in revenue across the country.
Emily Gravestock, UK Space Agency head of applications, said: "Britain's world-leading space sector continues to grow and support vital public services like the NHS with innovative applications. We encourage all businesses and public bodies to consider the role that satellite data can play in tackling some of the biggest challenges we face, as part of the government's Industrial Strategy."
For more details of how to get involved in this initiative, please contact emily.gravestock@ukspaceagency.gov.uk.


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Author: James Clancy
Barnsley charged in relation to abuse of Republic of Ireland international James McClean
Barnsley have been charged by the FA following an investigation into allegations of sectarian abuse towards Stoke midfielder James McClean.
The FA says Barnsley failed to stop supporters from using "abusive and/or insulting words which included a reference, whether express or implied, to nationality and/or religion and/or beliefs" in the match on November 9, 2019.
Barnsley, who have until January 10 to respond, issued a statement that said: "Barnsley Football Club has a zero tolerance policy on any form of discrimination.
"As a club, we are saddened to have had this charge brought against us. Since the incident was first reported, as a club, we have been thoroughly investigating and we will continue to do so.
"Anybody found to be involved in any form of abusive behaviour when representing Barnsley Football Club will be banned from attending matches.
"We will await and respect the outcome of the FA's charge against us before communicating further on this matter."
McClean was also subject to sectarian chants during Stoke's 5-2 win over Huddersfield on New Year's Day, forcing the match to be temporarily halted.
There was a tannoy announcement in the second half of the game at the John Smith's Stadium saying "racist chanting is affecting the game and will not be tolerated".
However, it is understood the abuse Huddersfield are investigating is of a sectarian nature.
Lionel Messi wins record sixth Balon d'Or
– By James Clancy
Lionel Messi has won a record sixth Ballon d'Or crown at a ceremony in Paris.
The Barcelona star moved ahead of great rival Cristiano Ronaldo to take outright ownership of the record, seeing off Liverpool's Virgil Van Dijk and Juventus' Ronaldo.
The Argentinian struck 54 goals for club and country in the 2018-19 season.
The 32-year-old held off the challenge of Holland centre-back Van Dijk, whose performances helped Liverpool to the Champions League title.
Van Dijk, the winner of UEFA's Men's Player of the Year, could have been the first defender to lift the Ballon d'Or since Italy's Fabio Cannavaro in 2006, but he was left to settle for second place as Messi added another honour to the Best FIFA Men's award he received in September.
And he fired a warning to his rivals that he only intends to keep on breaking records, and has no plans to start easing off now that he is in his early 30s.
"I'm going to enjoy this with my family," he said. "Because those times when it's possible to do it do not last long.
"Tomorrow we will have to focus again on other objectives.
"I am already focused on the future. This gives me great pride, it gives me a lot of strength to continue my work."
Van Dijk still finished ahead of five-time winner Ronaldo, with his Liverpool team-mate Sadio Mane fourth.
"It was an amazing year, but there's a couple of players like that who are a bit unnatural," said Van Dijk, of Messi and Ronaldo.
"So you need to respect greatness as well.
"I was close, but there was just someone a little bit better.
"I'm very proud of what I achieved last year with Liverpool and Holland, and hopefully we can do that again this year. But that will be tough with those guys around here still."
Van Dijk admitted he had never expected to be in the running for the prestigious title.
"I never thought that I would be up for a Ballon d'Or until I was actually nominated," said Van Dijk.
"It shows a lot about how my career has been. My career has been different from the winner here, I came late, but I never gave up on my dreams.
"I had to work hard every step of the way, so to be here makes me very proud. And I want to work hard and be here again next year."
Juventus defender Matthijs De Ligt claimed the 2019 Kopa Trophy for the young player award.
FA Cup third round draw pits Liverpool against Everton
Liverpool will face Everton in the FA Cup third round, while holders Arsenal will travel to Nottingham Forest.
Premier League leaders Manchester City have a home tie against Burnley, Manchester United host Derby and Chelsea are away at Norwich.
Seventh-tier Hereford, the lowest-ranked side left, will face Leicester if they overcome Fleetwood at the second attempt.
Three non-league sides remain but all are involved in replays.
National League side AFC Fylde will head to Premier League Bournemouth if they see off Wigan in a replay. Woking, who also play in the fifth tier, know victory over Peterborough in their replay will earn them a trip to Championship side Aston Villa.
In the pick of the other ties, AFC Wimbledon will travel to Wembley to take on Tottenham, Middlesbrough face Sunderland and Brighton & Hove Albion will host Crystal Palace – the latter one of three all-Premier League contests.
The Merseyside derby gives Liverpool the chance to correct one of cup football's more unusual statistics – that the Reds have never beaten Everton in an FA Cup tie at Anfield.
In fact, the last time the Toffees lost at that ground in either the FA Cup or League Cup was in 1892, when Anfield was their home stadium and they were beaten by Burnley.
Ties will take place on the weekend of 6-7 January 2018.
The third-round draw in full
Ipswich Town v Sheffield United
Watford v Bristol City
Birmingham City v Burton Albion
Brighton & Hove Albion v Crystal Palace
Aston Villa v Peterborough United
Bournemouth v Wigan
Coventry City v Stoke City
Newport County v Leeds United
Bolton Wanderers v Huddersfield Town
Yeovil Town v Bradford City
Nottingham Forest v Arsenal
Brentford v Notts County
Queens Park Rangers v MK Dons
Manchester United v Derby County
Exeter City v West Bromwich Albion
Doncaster Rovers v Rochdale
Tottenham Hotspur v AFC Wimbledon
Middlesbrough v Sunderland
Fleetwood v Leicester City
Blackburn Rovers v Hull City
Cardiff City v Mansfield Town
Manchester City v Burnley
Shrewsbury Town v West Ham United
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Swansea City
Stevenage v Reading
Newcastle United v Luton Town
Millwall v Barnsley
Fulham v Southampton
Wycombe Wanderers v Preston North End
Norwich City v Chelsea
Carlisle United v Sheffield Wednesday
Solskjaer reflects on Manchester United being six points above Premier League relegation zone
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says he is not thinking about the table despite sitting just six points clear of the relegation zone.
After more dropped points ninth-placed Manchester United are closer to the bottom three than they are to the Champions League places.
United are eight points adrift of the battle for a European finish but the Norwegian claims there are bigger things to worry about.
Solskjaer said: "I would have sat here talking about being fifth if we'd got the one extra goal. So the league table is not the biggest concern.
"It's so tight. I have to make sure we get performances and results.
"As a club we don't like to be in this position but that's the reality. Wednesday we have a big game against Tottenham, Saturday against Manchester City, these boys are looking forward to every game."
This is now United's worst start to a season for more than 30 years.
And they have not won in three games since ex-United target Mauricio Pochettino was shown the door by Spurs.
Solskjaer added: "What I can say is we've had the lead in so many games and haven't been able to win them, six or seven times and we should be better at turning them into wins."
United have won only six of 22 matches since Solskjaer was given the job on a permanent basis back in the spring.
His team have 18 points from 14 games so far – and his predecessor Jose Mourinho was sacked a year ago having got 27 from 18.
Ironically the Special One's resurgent Tottenham and then Manchester City are United's next two opponents in the week ahead.
The United boss added: "I think there's loads of evidence that they are closer to winning than losing, to tip in our favour we have to work on lots of different things.
"We're a young team, I don't want to use that as an excuse, we're Manchester United and want to get a run and that's what these boys need.
"We just have to make sure we do everything right now because it's a quick turnaround."
Solskjaer left all his starters behind when a young squad travelled to Kazakhstan last week and the plan did not work out.
United were lacklustre in the opening 45 minutes and were fortunate to go in on level terms thanks to a Tom Heaton own goal.
He admitted: "The boys stayed here so we should have come out of the traps quicker. The first half wasn't good enough."


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