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Work against the omicron variant.wo those two monoclonal antibodies have been a fantastic treatment for previous variants of covid. they have saves lots and lots of lives but they do not work against omicron. omicron is mutated in such a way that it is not susceptible to those treatments. the drug makers themselves say theyts have done the tests, and those monoclonal antibody treatments do not work against omicron and omicron now makes up 99% of new cases of covid across the country including fl...

Closed and some have got results coming through. is it saying that the trial is now closed? mike stewart was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer four years ago. it had spread from his bile duct after a series of operations and chemotherapy. he and his wife, kate, spent hours researching if there was a drug that could help them. finally, their oncologist decided to investigate which particular mutations he had in his cancer using genetic testing. they actually found out i had something called an ...

Is over? >> we can hope that that is the case. it may well be the case. but this is one of those examples of a situation where we have to hope for the best but prepare for the worst. because we have no idea, whether we may get another mutation that we dont know about or two of them in this year, 2022. it is just an unknown situation. i think people have to be careful of assuming or hoping for this thing to be over. there is no way to prove that. that is what worries me. >> dr. irwin redlener, al...

Some lean toward the virus is coming from people whose infections are not being captured by sequencing. others suspect it may be coming from virus infected animals. possibly the enormous population of rats. even then the favored theory can change from day to day or hour to hour. what is your reaction to that? it seems kind of concerning, especially given the widely accepted origin theory. >> what we know now is there is so much of this virus that it has gotten into various animal species. one of...

Developing world, johnson & johnson, quietly shutting down a plant overseas, amid growing concern that the virus will continue to -- mutate, especially if developing countries do not have access to the vaccine. j&j says it continues to manufacture its vaccine around the clock and around the world. it all comes as omicron sub variant ba.2, even more transmissible than the original highly contagious mutation, now accounts for nearly 4% of new cases in the u.s.. >> even if the united states is high...

Supplier of covid vaccines to much of the developing world, johnson & johnson, quietly shutting down a plant overseas, amid growing concern that the virus will continue to -- mutate, especially if developing countries do not have access to the vaccine. j&j says it continues to manufacture its vaccine around the clock and around the world. it all comes as omicron sub variant ba. 2, even more transmissible than the original highly contagious mutation, now accounts for nearly 4% of new cases in the...

Elizabeth cohen joins us now. for those of us who are live in the 80s, when you see this, it is just -- it is a miracle. >> it is. i try not to use the "m" word very often, but it seems to be appropriate here. as you said, this was just a death sentence, right? now we have fabulous drugs for hiv and in addition, let me tell you what happened here. a woman in the u.s. diagnosed with hiv, and then a few years later, like four years later diagnosed with leukemia. she needed a stem cell transplant a...

Whether you may have covid. what we have found is testing twice a week is sufficient to pick up people and thats what we do in hospital, for example, we tested twice a week so its not necessary to check every day. if you have symptoms, of course you can check more frequently. but you can check more frequently. but you should really get a pcr test done to confirm the diagnosis and i think the final point, some people have been overusing these tests, testing multiple times a day so we are keen to ...

Stem cell transplant to treat leukemia, and its the standard of care for treatment. what is unique about this case is what were used were core blood stem cells, so it was blood from a newborns cord to use for stem cell transportation. these cells are hiv resistant. we know 1% of individuals with eastern ancestry created a unique mutation that renders their cells resistant to hiv infection. this is a naturally occurring genetic mutation that makes individuals resistant to hiv, but using the cord ...

With leukemia, completely unrelated. but they know from the prior two cases that if you are going to get a stem cell transplant to treat leukemia, a relatively common treatment for leukemia, you can seek out umbilical cords from a newborn that has a certain mutation, about 1% of people in the world have this mutation that make them resistant to hiv. and so they sought out umbilical cord cells from that newborn, gave it to her. four years later there is no evidence that she ever had hiv. now this...