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Virus has to do that, the less likelihood a virus has to mutate, the less likely youre going to get a variant. so one of the things we need to do about our long end game is to do the things weve been saying every single day. not only for ourselves but internationally. and you know, we have done a lot and well continue to do a lot to get lower and middle income countries vaccinated. [ inaudible question ] oh, absolutely. theres no doubt that this will end, i promise you that. this will end. >> im...

And get your booster now. i thought peter had a fantastic question. it kind of gets to the meat of whats happening here. theres a lot we dont know about this variant. theres a lot we dont know about its transmissibility, whether it can break through the vaccine, whether it can break through other immunities we might have. the treatments going on, will they still work with this variant? we still dont know about those things. it will take a few weeks if not even longer than that to find those out....

>> an s-drop. all right. erin mclaughlin, thank you so much. dr. peter hotez, monica alba, and dr. john torres, thank you for getting us through this breaking news. everybody, remember, health officials said they expected this variant to be here. what they were doing is trying to buy time with those travel bans. they are cautioning, do not panic, they are testing the variant right now to try and figure out how contagious it is, how serious it is. remember, the person who has it so far, that we k...

Get here, they knew it was going to be here, but to buy this country some time to get prepared and to get as many people vaccinated and then boosted as possible before it did get here. so far, they are trying to contain the spread. but it does likely appear, according to health officials, that the cat was always going to be out of the bag on this. joining me now to discuss further is nbc news white house correspondent monica alba, nbc news correspondent erin mclaughlin from los angeles, nbc news...

But the mistake people would make is to say, let me wait and see if we get one. if youre eligible to get boosted, get boosted right now. >> reporter: there is screening in place for international travel but weve seen how quickly variants can spread once they reach our shores. does the science not suggest there should at minimum be a testing requirement for domestic air travel? and if not, why not? >> again, these kind of things we always talk about and consider. but right now, im not so sure we ...

30 to 40-fold rise in your virus neutralizing antibodies. and we know from other partial vaccine resistant variants like the beta variant that was first identified in south africa last year and the lambda variant, when you have high virus neutralizing antibodies, you have spillover or cross protection against the variant of concern. i am hoping that for those people who have had that third immunization, that that will be the case, they wont get infected or sick from the omicron variant. what may...

0 the president was asked about this earlier this week and he said that had not been recommended to him. youre his chief medical adviser. do you think thats something the country should adopt? >> im not so sure we should say that should be a requirement. we have 60 million people in this country who are not vaccinated, who are eligible to be vaccinated. lets get them vaccinated, lets get the people who are vaccinated boosted, lets get the children vaccinated. thats where we want to go as opposed...

As the World Health Organization announces that omircon has been classified as a “variant of concern,” many are asking about the difference between this...

First of all, in terms of disease severity, so far, the early reports suggest its not producing more severe disease in anything weve seen before. delta, the delta variant or the alpha variant. i think the most -- what most -- concerns most people is the fact that there are more than 30 mutations in the spike protein, which is pretty high, including those in the receptor binding domain. that interacts with the receptor so theres worry that this could thwart some of the protection afforded by the ...

As always, with a new variant, there are many things that we just cannot know at this early stage. but our scientists are learning more hour by hour. >> reporter: now, as you said, there are now confirmed cases inside the u.s. right now, but dr. fauci, other public health officials have all acknowledged it is possible that the omicron variant is already inside american borders and just hasnt been detected yet. it has been detected here in israel, in one traveler who recently returned from malawi...