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Dangerous variant to deal with, but it is impacting those that are worried that will slow the economy. ken, theres the worry, right? >> you know, i think that was the worry today. they succeeded with the headlines about new york is getting ready to close down and l.a. is closing down and theyre more worried about the pace. if you want my opinion, i think the underlying issue is not that at all. the underlying issue is much more the recognition that the fed is going to move faster than what they ...

They expect omicron to be the dominant variant in the united states in the coming weeks. theyre stressing that americans should masking and social distancing now and getting tested so that they can gather next week safely for the holidays. while this looks like last year in the u.s., white house officials say theres a difference. >> unlike last winder, we now have the power to protect ourselves. our vaccines work against omicron, especially for people that get booster shots when theyre eligible....

Undermined, that was wrong. i dont know -- i dont have knowledge about it. >> neil: got it. all right. thanks, senator. bill cassidy of louisiana. >> thank you. >> neil: theres so many companies fighting for a protection to deal with this virus including moderna. the ceo chatted with me early on the new case omicron namely that it is so contagious. >> the problem with omicron is the transmissibility. 14% of those in south africa are in icu. so it does have the ability to hospitalize people for s...

Work at hospitals and they were telling me there were very perverse financial incentives for hospitals to say people were there with covid and because of covid and that they were doing it for financial gain from the government. >> well, its hard to judge motivation. there is a financial difference between folks who are diagnosed with covid or not. i think this is an epidemic of cowardice. 70% of the patients dr. noble cessna little report from san francisco in her hospital were there for other r...

The slate is clean in january, thats when the fed talk will get more aggressive and thats when the market will hit turbulence. then youre going to add in the they shut down the big cities and mandating people to stay home and locking people down. its only going to feed itself for sure. im not really sure im getting the whole omicron thing. while i understand its transmissable, we have therapeutics now. we have vaccines. the booster. were in a much better position. people -- this is not covid 202...

>> you know, theres plenty other reasons to question that proposal that theory about herd immunity. didnt make sense. it would result in the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of lives. what we have found since then is that the virus is so capable of shape shifting it gets in the way of herd immunity. we might have herd immunity to the wuhan virus but not to omicron. its like we have a new character here, a screwed up sibling of what we started with and our immune system has potential to fight i...

Mrna vaccines and therapeutics and its our responsibility to do this. we dont know where omicron is going. and we take this responsibility seriously and working on that vaccine. >> neil: what does that mean, doctor? we see the studies that say a booster shot, yours included would be 50 times more effective at dealing with omicron. does that mean that the third shot or a fourth shot is in order? what are we looking at here? >> i think its confusing, neil. what the data broadly tells us today is t...

United states postal service. >> neil: if the chief medical officer is right at moderna, that he thinks omicron and covid-19 will be around awhile, what does francis collins think about that? dr. collins, great to see you. what do you make of what he said? >> you know, i dont think anybody really can make a hard and fast prediction at this point. weve known about omicron less than a month and clearly its very contagious. you can see its doubling every two or three days in south africa, the u.k. ...

Have never seen before. new york is a popular global tourist destination this time of the year and the u.s. has restricted travel from south africa and several other nations. other countries have been imposing more severe restrictions. france suspending all-nonessential travel and japan shutting down its borders. major league sports are also trying to prevent omicron from interrupting their season. the nfl just delaying three games. the nhl now shutting down colorado and florida games and the nb...

Then, when will we need it, how will we want to use an omicron specific booster. those are questions, neil, that we just dont have answers to yet but will be critical. >> neil: do you think some of the measures that are being taken worldwide doctor, including france putting a lid on visitors from britain because of the spike there or a lot of businesses the united states keeping remote work going for at least the next couple months in the case of apple, an indefinite suspension of such policies....