Biden Expected to Single Out Trump in January 6 Address, White House Says

  • President Joe Biden is expected to blame his predecessor for the Capitol attack, the White House said.
  • He may not call Donald Trump by name, but the reference will be clear, the White House said.
  • Meanwhile, Trump recently canceled a January 6 press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

President Joe Biden is set to blame the “chaos and carnage” of the Capitol attack on his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, when he speaks publicly to Americans about January 6 on Thursday, the White House said.

“I would expect that President Biden will lay out the significance of what happened at the Capitol and the singular responsibility President Trump has for the chaos and carnage that we saw,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a Wednesday press briefing.

“And he will forcibly push back on the lie spread by the former President in

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YouTube Set to Beat Netflix As the Biggest Video-Streaming Business

  • Netflix has for years been the biggest streaming business in the world.
  • As Netflix’s subscriber growth slows, YouTube’s revenue may soon outpace it, an analyst says.
  • YouTube’s revenue grew 43% last year, compared to 16% at Netflix.

YouTube grew so much lately that 2022 could be the year it supersedes


Netflix

as the biggest


streaming

business by one important measure.

While also considered a social-media platform, the Google-owned site’s focus on video makes it a big rival for streamers, including Netflix. And although Netflix has long been the biggest by revenue, YouTube’s continued growth has it poised to beat it as soon as this year, said Neil Campling, an analyst at Mirabaud Equity Research.

YouTube’s ad revenue was $7.2 billion in the third quarter, up 43% from a year earlier. Meanwhile Netflix, with quarterly revenue of $7.5 billion, grew 16% during the same period.

While YouTube has exponentially more users,

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Florida’s Surgeon General Calls for People to Stop Relying on Testing

  • Florida is switching its approach to COVID-19 testing, focusing on giving tests to “high-value” patients. 
  • A public health expert told Insider this method is consistent with a “me first, forget everybody else” approach. 
  • She said the state should actually be ramping up testing, rather than cutting back.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo’s call for people to stop relying on COVID-19 testing is “consistent with an anti-public health approach to the pandemic” and a “me first, forget everybody else” way of thinking, a public health expert told Insider. 

At a COVID-19 briefing Monday, Ladapo and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the state will be shifting focus to testing “high-value” patients as cases surge due to the Omicron variant. 

“High-value testing is testing that is likely to change outcomes,” Ladapo said.

He added that they are working to unwind the testing psychology that has been caused by

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Shopify, Robinhood, Cloudkitchens, and More

Happy New Year! I’m Matt Turner, editor-in-chief of business at Insider.

Here at Insider, we have lots planned for the year ahead. But first I want to take a moment to look back at some of our best reporting from 2021. 

These stories touch on some of the biggest storylines in business from the past 12 months. There’s the explosion in retail trading (read this powerful essay on being addicted to Robinhood) to the Great Resignation (we built a database of 250,000 salaries at 250-plus companies). 

There’s a prescient look at the perils of hybrid work (this April story on America’s top WFH expert predicting turmoil), and a look at the growing tension between leaders and employees (check out the essay Shopify’s CEO sent to remind managers they’re on a sports team).

And there are the stories that live up to our name, putting readers inside the companies and industries

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Chart Shows Protection Vs Omicrom From 2 and 3 Shots of Vaccine

  • A chart shows vaccine protection against Omicron after one, two, or three shots.
  • Protection is high against severe disease, and is boosted by a third shot, per official UK stats.
  • Protection against getting mildly ill is much lower, although a booster raises it.

A new chart hows how much protection is conferred by one, two, and three doses of vaccine against the Omicron coronavirus variant.

It was published on Friday by the UK’s Health Security Agency, drawing on data collected during the country’s Omicron surge in late December.

It found that, while vaccines protect much less against catching COVID-19 with Omicron than with Delta, protection against hospitalization remains high.

Protection against hospitalization waned over time after a second dose, but a booster shot increased it again, the figures showed.

A chart shows vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization against Omicron, as well as odds ratios against symptomatic disease against Omicron.

A chart shows protection from vaccines against symptomatic disease and hospitalization.

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The study was based

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