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>> many people going out to get booster shots because theyre concerned about getting omicron and dr. fauci is saying hold on, that might not be enough. take a listen. >> it is conceivable in the future we might need an additional shot. were hoping we will get a greater degree of durability of protection from the booster shot. well take one step at a time. >> take one step at a time. he dangles ideas out there and a few weeks later it becomes a guideline and then a mandate. when is a person vacci...

Harvard will start their spring 2022 semester online. in atlanta they have reinstated an indoor mask mandate. so much being done to stop the latest wave of covid-19. >> nick, thanks very much. nick valencia reporting. lets get more on all of this. dr. paul burton is joining us the chief medical officer for the drug maker moderna. doctor, thank you so much for joining us. for people who are fully vaccinated and boosted with moderna shots, is it clear exactly how much protection they now have from...

Delta or previous variants, so lets take a look at what moderna announced today. they said that their current booster, the one can you go out and get right now which is 50 micrograms boosted antibodies and 100 antibodies, double the dose, boosted it even further and the effectiveness against omicron sun clear. this is lab data, and its unclear what this means in the real world. how effective that will be and how long the effectiveness will last. you might see this and say why dont they do the 10...

And so the question is, you know, whether or not, which dose is sufficient. one. but also, two, we saw with the larger dose people had adverse effects with that. the other question is how does this translate into clinical outcomes? severe disease, hospitalations, and deaths sf we dont know whether this booster has any impact yet. all we know is lab data showing increase in antibodies. we know the immune system is complicated. there are cells involved. a very sophisticated system. we know they al...

Important for people to understand were seeing with these lab stories is that people who are vaccinated and previously infected or fully vaccinated and boosted actually do really well up against omicron, but this is just the lab data. what were waiting for is real-life data, and we wont have that for several weeks. >> thats such a good point, and i think the distinction between how it works in the real world and how it works in a petri dish -- i dont know if thats what its in technically. >> rig...

Pfizer said its booster helps with omicron but the two-dose vaccine may not be enough. whats your sense on the booster shot as a whole? should we expect a similar result from moderna? when will we know about that? and is this the proof that every america should be getting the third shot? >> yeah, jonathan, i think it is. and i think it will be changing what is the definition of fully immunized. i think that will happen sooner than later. and i do think modernas data is days behind. this is lab d...

Work very well. and the vaccine certainly takes a hit, but it still is protective it appears against severe disease. before i talk about the data that pfizer has, i know that people listening are thinking, yeah, well, pfizer thinks three shots is better than two, what a surprise that a pharmaceutical company wants to sell more shots. and while i understand that cynicism and to some extent share it, it is interesting and important to note that the pfizer data really meshes with data from a south ...

With the new omicron variant the initial study shows that for people with two doses of the mrna vaccine, the protection against infection -- at least laboratory data, we dont have clinical data yet -- diminishes significantly. however, as people from pfizer pointed out, when you get that third shot boost, it dramatically increases the level of laboratory projected protection. in other words, if you look at the level of antibodies and very likely other immune parameters, that you still stay withi...

Brand new hour, glad youre here with us, im victor blackwell. >> and im alisyn camerota. we begin with what president biden is calling good news in the pandemic. pfizer says its early lab data showed a booster shot of its vaccine can neutralize the omicron variant which has now been detected in 21 states. the presidents chief medical adviser says hes encouraged by this booster news. >> when youre entering into an arena of a new variant with very many unknown aspects about it, you always have a d...

We may find out lab data in the next week which looks at antibody levels and how that controls this variant but that;s lab data. it will take several more weeks to get real—world data to see how effective the vaccines are. lets take a look at the latest covid figures there have been 5a new deaths, that his death recorded within 28 days of a positive covid test. the business secretary, kwasi kwarteng, has criticised the failure to reconnect thousands of homes which have been without power for n...