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Don Lemon Tonight brings in-depth analysis of the days top news stories and Dons take on the stories.

Don Lemon Tonight brings in-depth analysis of the days top news stories and Dons take on the stories.

But we will know much more about this next week. there has been a lot of talk throughout _ this next week. there has been a lot of talk throughout this _ this next week. there has been a lot of talk throughout this pandemic - of talk throughout this pandemic that, as it goes on, coronavirus becomes milder, we learn to live with it, it becomes more like a cold. and, as it mutates. do you think this omicron is perhaps part of that pattern, part of that process? i of that pattern, part of that proc...

Something like the flu where we have to use therapeutics and flu on an annual basis to keep this at bay. >> expand on what dr. gotlieb says and what anybody watches understands that how this is part of their life for a long time. >> john, the way i think about it, as dr. gotlieb says, i think about it the same way that i think about the flu. the influenza virus mutates continuously because the vaccine i got this year is not going to work next year because it mutates. theres different viruses so ...

Modernas c.e.o. told the financial times, if omicron does, indeed, diminish protection from vaccines -- >> boosters should reduce dramatically the gap. >> reporter: this variant was first detected in southern africa, now dominant down there. >> what we are presenting to primary health care practitioners are extremely mild, mild to moderate. so these patients that dont need to be hospitalized for now. >> reporter: still, dr. fauci cautioning against such anecdotal accounts. >> most of those are i...

Likely not be the last coronavirus variant. >> omicron is like a wake-up call as though we needed another wake-up call to vaccinate the world. one of the best ways to keep americans safe is actually to vaccinate the world. >> reporter: because the more the virus spreads, the more it mutates. china has promised to send another billion vaccine doses to africa. italy calling on wealthy countries to not just dish out doses but actually help getting them into arms. and the cdc is now stepping up surv...

Day they become more and more susceptible to getting infected and were only boosting about 35 million of those 120 million. so this is a real challenge. weve got to get people vaccinated, both first doses, and boosters as soon as possible. >> and what do you make of what we, i mean, former u.k. prime minister gordon brown wrote a piece in the guardian saying that this is essentially chickens coming home to roost, that the wealthier nations did not do enough over the last year to make sure that t...

We can get technology to the world faster. the single biggest gap here has remained the global response, so we have 80% of many european countries vaccinated and only 10%, 15% of countries in africa, if that. that is the gap that is causing this virus to replicate, you know, to move around, and the more it replicates, the more it mutates, which has changed forms. but the bottom line is we have lived off testing for the variant for a long time. we have to learn how to protect ourselves and not sh...

Republic of congo, travel thed through europe, so there was a wide variety of people wearing masks on airplanes. youre in close proximity, so its a good idea to have extra layers of protection. theres nothing like added layers to prevent potential of spread. arthel: absolutely. and, listen, there have been other variants in between delta and omicron. explain why these different variants continue to crop up. >> well, the thing is about this virus just like other viruses, the more opportunity it h...

Thats what we expect from politicians now. especially with covid. so when it comes to the politics of covid, sitting at home deciding whether youre going to let the fear control your life or no respect at all, americans have figured that out. politicians wont change that. theyre not going to do it on the bully pulpit with joe biden. this is a man that stood up there and really just destroyed president trump for everything he did to include a travel ban, everything from destroying him for doing i...