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Africa, it is a young population with heavy levels of infection previously, but we have not seen those high levels of infection so it may be a more mild disease and we need to wait and see whether that translates in its severity or lack of severity here. nevertheless, it is clearly quite widely diverging from the original wuhan strain and it is likely that if omicron becomes the dominant strain we will have two... in my view it would be prudent to develop variant vaccines so what i think would b...

Partner was to have that capability to grow up variance vaccines. it is not trivial and not every virus can be grown, but that is one of the ideas of how would you get ahead of the mutations of the vaccine. it may be it has been done, i certainly read in the press that different vaccine companies are creating omicron variants but that is what i think we should be doing both historically and what we should do in the future is predicting what they will be at making vaccines accordingly. the testin...

It's unclear whether omicron causes milder symptoms than other coronavirus variants — though experts still urge the public to get vaccinated. In the UK, at least one death due to the omicron variant has been confirmed.

Not to pile on, but winter is coming and the COVID-19 pandemic is about to get worse. Not necessarily because of omicron – scientists are still working that one out – but because there’s more evidence than ever that COVID-19 is a seasonal disease.

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>> something that spreads fast, not a mutation -- another mutation may come. of 19 shocking the pfizer ceo doesnt want to put the end, jointly is the school of medicine professor and epidemiologist. what do you make of this? yes, it is a week variant but no, we dont want it to spread. >> of the week variant and wrong about it being more transmissible, less transmissible, the fact is the transmissibility indexes been studied by a smart professor who calculated its transmissibility is comparable t...

Actually it does work somewhat quite well, not perfectly. its definitely the -- the mutation is giving it a run for its money. but still it is working. lets look at whats been found by a pfizer study and by a south african study. what they found is that two doses may not provide sufficient protection against infection with omicron. in other words, there is a possibility that you are going to -- youll be fully vaccinated and still get infected with omicron. now if it doesnt get you sick, thats no...

Extent we are constantly relying on britain and south africa the definition of flying blind. the cdc has been under fire for months lackluster tracking break through infections and u.s. reliant on other countries for realtime data. thats what anthony fauci should be asked. when are you going to give us some data that we can use instead of telling us how many people can come to our thanksgiving? steve: we had delta come into the country last year and now omicron. as it turns out the bike vaccine ...

Public forms of transportation, planes, trains, buses, boats and also here in terminals, jim. >> elizabeth, when we first heard about omicron, there were real concerns this could be a marked change for the worse, but since then, the early data from south africa on omicron cases, particularly how severe they are, has been trending positive. what are we learning from the latest data? >> thats right. so lets think this through a little bit. a mutation that needs three things to be a true threat, on...

Shots and concerns are growing over the omicron variant. elizabeth cohen joins us now. good news that more people are getting vaccinated, elizabeth. >> reporter: it is good news. its unfortunate that it took the fear of a mute ant -- a mutation to make them do it. or at least thats what it seems like. it is always good to have shots in arms. lets take a look at the numbers. if we look at the week ending november 21st, about 527,000 americans per day were getting their first covid-19 shot. now if...