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How severe this parent may be bu researchers are looking at new information. kathy park has more. >> reporter: tonight, the omicron variant on the move, with cases detected in roughly 40 countries, at least 13 states in the u.s. health officials warning expect the numbers to climb. >> we are equipped and prepared to fight the omicron variant head on >> reporter: meanwhile, in sout africa, the first country to report cases of omicron, infections are climbing, and scientists say the new variant is...

Colorado, georgia, hawaii, maryland, minnesota, missouri, nebraska, new jersey, new york, and utah. pretty soon, the list would be pretty soon to keep naming them. but louisiana is reporting a probable case of the variant, we knew about that yesterday, has not been confirmed to be omicron yet. we should note, while omicron is known to be highly transmissible, to our knowledge, there have not been any reports of infections resulting in serious illness, hospitalization, or death in the united stat...

Chris: welcome back to the reagan national defense forum. now the latest on the developing story. the highly mutated covid very omicron has now been detected in 44 countries and spread to 16 states here in the u.s. health officials are racing to learn more about the new variant. were also dealing with another surge of the delta virus. joining is now u.s. surgeon general vivek murthy. doctor, its been a little bit more than a week since the world first learned about the omicron variant. i would g...

Everyone else. what do actually know right now? >> i actually feel that a lot of people, including myself, are hesitant because things may change, this is a moving picture. but i want to, before we tell you what i know about omicron, when people hear those, they think, weve been through this for two years and people are overwhelmed. whatever we find out, were in a better place now than we were in the winter of 2020 a year ago or two years ago because we have all of these things include rapid tes...

Theyre going to look to see if you have antibodies, what type of antibodies and what kind of symptoms do you have. theyre looking at antibodies, that also would make people question, well, you have antibodies from a vaccine or from having an infection, so a lot of these things, i think, are worded in a way where the politics are being taken into account and then, again, it makes it, you know, even more questionable in terms of should people trust are these policies completely separated from the ...

A new study says the omicron variant might be more infectious than past strains because it has copied part of the genetic code for the common cold, which is also a coronavirus. cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner is a professor of medicine at george washington university. dr. reiner, you always help answer most of my questions. we knew there would be mutations, but what does it mean that omicron has a, quote, stolen genetic code from the common cold? does that make it more dangerous? >> mayb...

You will not find if youre not looking for it. >> doctor, we -- how is that theyre found? because i dont see a national policy of contact tracing, et cetera. how is it theyre found? and its pretty probable then youre thinking this could be as you said more widespread? >> so when you go get tested. when you get a pcr test for coronavirus, a sample or a subset of those specimens that turn positive are sent for sequencing. we figure out the genetic code for that particular virus youre infected with...

Our vaccines as well as our antibodies. the trouble is just because you see it in the genetic code, youre not actually sure how the virus will behave in the laboratory or humans. the other concern is south africa has seen a spike of cases. the question is is it because the new strain? we are actually getting information from the laboratory over the next two weeks about how these -- this variant behaves with the new -- with the current vaccines. and over the next few weeks, how it behaves in huma...

Theyve taken themselves out of the cue for the next delivery of vaccines. and by doing that, theyre allowing many of the countries have been able to purchase the vaccines. we need to see more of that commitment. this needs to be a global wakeup call that we do not, any of us return to normalcy as just mentioned, until we have global vaccine equity. >> lets back up when it comes to omicron. lets talk about what we do and dont know. we dont know if its more transmisable. we dont know if it does an...

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