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Some of the pushback from the fda advisories earlier this past week. what would you say to your colleagues in the scientific community that have concerns about this moving forward? >> id say we need to do a little better job at thinking about the science. some of the things i heard i felt like i didnt recognize the potential. for example, this drug does cause more mutations in the virus. so concerns were raised about whether that would cause a virus that was more dangerous. but in fact, it cause...

With that. >> georgia has reported the first in-state case of omicron variant and involves a person who returned from travel to south africa according to the georgia department of public health, patient is recovering at home with only mild symptoms according to a study omicron variant likely picked up some of its mutation from another virus perhaps a virus that causes the common cold, this could make this more infectious but less lethal. federal health officials caution this is far from proven. ...

Actually sequencing that library. >> reporter: the world health organization and the cdc declared omicron a variant of concern after it was flagged by scientists in south africa. a mutation causes a peculiar test israel called an s gene dropout. >> n gene is the blue curve and the green curve is the s gene. >> it would normally up there with them? >> yeah. >> reporter: making a suspicious case easy to spot for expedited sequencing. >> we have about six samples that have that signature s gene dro...

That is not political people. those are people with jobs, families kids. they say enough is enough. i think some of the restrictions have been even more draconian and even more widespread in their application in europe than here in the united states. thankfully we are, we do have federalism. we have some level of states prerogative. may we have the ability to muster that when necessary. kind of scary we havent even gotten to that point in this country. >> absolutely. with omicron, latest variant...

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We know the consequences of that when we had with the china virus, right? and how that targeted asian americans. it is not right. and in this case, its not necessarily beneficial. instead of travel bans, we need low vaccination, we need to lift the ip, start sharing formulas with other countries in order to produce these vaccines, so we can reduce their risk of having another mutation, that can now cause a variant that may start vaccines, you know, not work for lack of a better word. so thats wh...

Are uncertain as of yet, but its clear that the subject is being given plenty of attention and airtime from bbc news, starting with reports of its emergence on thursday last week. tonight at 10 — the uks suspends flights from six african countries after the discovery of a new variant of coronavirus. the countries, including south africa, will be placed on the travel red list amid fears the new mutation may be the most dangerous yet. as the coverage went on, leading news bulletins all week, jul...

But, of course, we have been saying and youve been saying that we need to vaccinate the whole world so we dont give the virus a chance to turn itself into a more effective version. >> reporter: to fight the variant the makers of vaccine they had is he cant modify their vaccine formula, but 2 will take time. >> if we develop a new vaccine, we will most likely not be able to prevent the wave of infections with the new vaccine because it will take 100 days to develop and distribute a new vaccine. o...

Tonight, the cdc director is offering new insight and a warning about what she is seeing with the new omicron variant. >> what we do know is that early data and even mutation data are telling us that this may well be a more transmissible variant than delta. and so, um, were -- this is going to take some time to sort out. >> rochelle walensky also said while they study omicron, the most urgent problem, still, is the delta variant. there are more than 59,000 people currently hospitalized in the un...

Confirmed to be in at least a dozen states at this moment. and that list is sure to grow as health experts study the mutations that could make it more transmissible. here is cdc director rochel walensky. >> what we do know is that early data and even mutation data are telling us that this may well be a more transmissible variant than delta, and so this is going to take some time to sort out. >> whatever omicron may bring, the problem right now is the delta variant. dr. walensky mentioned over ha...