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Decreased the effectiveness of the vaccines. but its something to keep watching. i take that as a lesson to see, look, there are multiple states in our union that have less than 50% vaccination. you know, alabama, virginia, mississippi. when we are looking at vulnerability and the potentially in the face of a more transmissible, you know, variant, the best thing that we can do, if we are not panic and getting ready, right, the best thing is to make sure we get the rates up and continue that vigi...

Have been filming the second season of the show. coming soon on discovery network. i guess i can say that. >> greg: you already dead. >> the point is ive been to countries where they do need quarantine. so you are right that you are supposed to -- one country was 14 days, one country was seven days. i will say that my observation was most people pay no attention whatsoever to the self-quarantine. they arrived back in the country and they were off and doing their own business and not staying at h...

Cause more severe disease, and also, does it impact the potential effectiveness of vaccines, does it affect the -- does it affect immune invasion or increased immune invasion from antibodies after being vaccinated or infected before? >> katy, in addition to his eagerness to get that sample studied so we can sort out some of whats going to happen with omicron here, he also made the very good point, we have to make it again and again, that the reason we have these variants is that people are not g...

To pursue some of that. at a minimum given what we knew that this was in the united states and two confirmed cases, what i suspect will be many more, data coming out of south africa that keeps getting a little bit worse by the day, meaning more and more positive cases, still waiting for some of those details. i think this is a bear minimum of what they can do. i think the question is going to be how much resistance will we see at the state level because theres so much the federal government can ...

Mutations, what that means is -- i should also mention that the mutations that it has, it has some mutations in common with some of the earlier variants which we know -- such as delta which we know are more infectious. as a result of having more mutations, there is a suspicion that this virus may be more transmissible, may be more infectious. there is also the possibility that this virus may affect -- the effectiveness of vaccines may affect the ability of the protection you get from the vaccina...

>> reporter: but dr. hoge today sounding more optimistic about his companys mrna vaccine than modernas ceo stephane bancel did just days ago, saying there was, quote, no world in which vaccine effectiveness doesnt drop against this new variant. >> i probably would have used different words. there is a scenario that the current vaccines wouldnt be by themselves sufficient to get the same high level of efficacy, but that doesnt mean that they wouldnt work at all. >> all right, so, lets get to mart...

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Support— evidence approach. that means we support multilayered risk reduction, namely— support multilayered risk reduction, namely screening, testing, quarantine, is that they what mike said _ quarantine, is that they what mike said but — quarantine, is that they what mike said. but falling short of a blanket travel— said. but falling short of a blanket travel bands. they have less effectiveness and terrible perverse incentives. for example, you know, the governments of savannah and bots...

That could take weeks, or even months. in the meantime, several major vaccine manufacturers have said they are ready to tweak their shots if needed. and china, which produces its own vaccines, is taking similar steps. translation: it is stilll currently unclear if these mutations in the omicron variant can lead to vaccines being less effective. however, china has already made the technological preparations to adapt our vaccines. despite questions over the effectiveness of current vaccines agains...

Three and those three, is what we are looking for. >> and ruth marcus, is there any version of this missive sipping case where the court upholds the mississippi law but doesnt overturn roe v. wade? >> well there is certainly a version where they do not say the magic words that former attorney general says. and i think it is really important through the washington post they said, that is what they really wanted to hear, which is that ravi weight is overruled. but to effectively to undo the effect...