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Translation: we will ban all entries of foreign - nationals from all over- the world as of november 30. theres no doubt that the world has reacted quicker than it did when the delta variant emerged in india earlier this year. g7 ministers have met online and agreed to share information from their surveillance systems, but the fact remains that large parts of the world do not have the technology they need to track this variant. naomi grimley, bbc news. scientists are now in a race to establish wh...

Those may mean that its more transmissible, more severe, and may undermine the effectiveness of our vaccines. we just dont know the degree to which yet, or even for certain if it does. what this does suggest, though, is that what we must be doing is really redoubling what we should be doing head ning into a winte surge of the already contagious delta variant and focusing on those kinds of efforts we can control at this time. >> lets talk about this travel ban, if you will, to southern africa tha...

>> reporter: will vaccines work as well as they did against the delta variant? there is no world i think where the effectiveness is the same level, modernas ceo told the "financial times." if omicron does indeed diminish protection from vaccines -- >> boosters should reduce dramatically the gap. >> reporter: cdc guidance was that all adults may get boosters. now says the cdc, they should. >> are lockdowns off the table? >> for now, yes. >> why is that? >> because if people are vaccinated and wea...

Welcome back to "cnn newsroom." im rosemary church. if youre just joining us, let me bring you up to date with our top stories this hour. americas toppin infectious disease expert dr. anthony fauci says it could be weeks before we know more about the severity of the omicron variant. he is telling americans to get vaccinated and for those who already are, get a booster shot for extra protection. meanwhile, vaccine makers are testing the effectiveness of current vaccines against the variant. mod...

Treasury secretary janet yellen and federal reserve chairman jerome powell are testifying now on capitol hill in a senate hearing about this, powell warning a short time ago that the spike in covid cases, the emergence of the new variant, quote, pose downside risks to employment and economic activity and increased uncertainty for inflation. joining me for more is dick du durbin, senator from illinois. downside risk to unemployment and economic activity in, increased uncertainty for inflation, th...

Appear to be significant mutations of how the antivirals work, but, again, we have to see. >> if there is bad news in terms of the effectiveness of the vaccines, if it appears the variant evades them in some way and new vaccines or boosters need to be developed, is the new mrna technology that led to the moderna and pfizer vaccines, that those new boosters could be made quickly, and by asking it in those terms, i guess i should be asking, how quickly? >> the answer is, yes, we have the tools to ...

Immune system against this particularly mutated virus? for that matter, how long is it going to take for us to know whether our vaccines work against this virus? theyre testing it now. report in "the new york times" that scientists in south africa started within one hour of the mutation first being reported -- the variant first being described, within one hour they were trying to test the effectiveness of various vaccines we already got against this variant. how long will that testing take? if t...

Widely. >> doctor david kessler is the chief science officer of the white houses covid-19 response, former fda commissioner. doctor kessler as i said, it is always an honor to have your time, especially on a night when i think a lot of americans have so many questions. thank you so much sir. >> thank you rachel. >> i should underscore with doctor kessler said about the fda advisory group tomorrow, considering the first of those two antiviral pills. these are treatments. that are going to the fda...

Is doing something similar. translation: we will ban all entries of foreign - nationals from all over- the world as of november 30. theres no doubt that the world has reacted quicker than it did when the delta variant emerged in india earlier this year. g7 ministers have met online and agreed to share information from their surveillance systems, but the fact remains that large parts of the world do not have the technology they need to track this variant. naomi grimley, bbc news. scientists are n...

So the neutralization data with the plasma, and oral antibody therapies, thats what people often ask. generally it will be two to four weeks, possibly sooner, depending on when the specimens, and by specimens i mean the virus, gets to individual investigators as the cdc, the nih, and other countries for them to be able to make that determination. pending these data, the effectiveness, the severity of disease, remains speculative. so what about these potential properties? lets look at what know a...