allegations against cuomo. congressional and state leaders in his own party say cuomo can no longer govern effectively and should resign. cuomo remains steadfastly defiant saying in a teleconference friday that he is not going anywhere and he flat-out denies the allegations against him. i did not do what has been alleged. period. look, it s very simple, i never harassed anyone. i never abused anyone. i never assaulted anyone. now and i never would, right? i want to bring in new york assembly leader crystal stokes. so good that you could be with us. so what are your thoughts now about this newest allegation in the new york magazine from a political reporter who said that he behaved inappropriately around her? well, i think all of these women should be heard. they should have their due process much like i believe the governor should have his. when women complain people should listen, and i think we have set up a process in new york with the assembly judiciary committe
booster. you ve got a ton of mutations on this virus. the mutations on the virus are acting to essentially disguise from it antibodies that the body has created to find the virus, and it s slipping past them because it has put on a disguise, if you will. and so that s slipping past the protection given by the antibodies produced by the vaccine. the scale of that, celine, doctor, it seems like my takeaway reading between the lines, reading the conversation on this, the scale of that evasion, my understanding was the people looking at this data thought it was not great but not as terrible as they feared? does that seem like a fair characterization? chris, i think that s about right. another way to think about this is, as if antibodies are like pieces of velcro where one piece of velcro would have worked to stick to the old variant, maybe now you need 10 or 20 pieces of velcro. but as long as you increase that level of antibody, those pieces
haven t been boosted. the new variant is only a few weeks old. there s still a lot we do not know. there s still a bunch of questions that need answering. i m joined by two people who are going to help me unpack what we know and don t know. dr. celine bounder has served on the biden-harris covid advisory board. dr. eric toppeles, writer of the ground truth blog who s been following this closely. dr. toppele, let me start with you. we ve got i think three new preliminary data sets out in the last 24 hours from different labs, basically conducting experiments on how the omicron viral variant interacts with the antibody t-cell response, immune response in vaccinated individuals. right. give us a gloss of the finding there. okay. well, good to be with you, chris, and my friend, celine. so what we have are now five