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>> early data and mutation data say this may well be more transmissible than delta. this will take time to sort out. >> lets discuss now with cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner, thanks for joining us. its not just cases. hospitalizations are also up. the delta variant is dominant now. but more omicron cases are cropping up. the cdc director is sounding the alarm. there is a lot we dont know, but are you worried by what youre seeing at this moment? >> well, im worried about delta and im worr...

Sequence of a mutation or a variant, we dont really know what that means. we cant really make a lot of inferences but we are starting to be able to, the way that meteorologists can stack storms and say this one worries us. were not sure but watch out. and some of them turn out to be duds and some of them are category five. and thats where we have been with this so far. now, we are learning it certainly seems to be as contagious or may be as contagious as people were beginning to worry about. but...

At least a dozen states have identified cases of the new covid variant, omicron. there are growing concerns about the transmissibility rate. heres rochelle walensky. >> what we do now is early data and even mutation data are telling us this may well be a more transmissible variant than delta, so this is going to take some time to sort out. >> and that highly transmissible delta variant is the main one in the u.s. delta cases are rising. half them spiked more than 50% in the last week. how do hea...

Omicron was first found, covid cases have quadrupled since tuesday. thats in just a little more than four days. a surprising number of those cases have also been diagnosed now in small children. now, omicron is a mutated form of the coronavirus. you can see a diagram of it here. now, the areas that we see indicate a color difference from the original virus that was first seen at the end of 2019. and researchers now say the mutation includes genetic material that looks like it actually came from ...

Variant. joining us now, emergency medicine physician inside medicine newsletter writer, dr. jeremy faus. dr. faus, covid cases have quadrupled since tuesday. rising from 4,000 to 16,000 new cases today. what do you make of -- of what we know about omicron variant in just one week? >> good to be with you, anderson. we have learned so much. we didnt know this existed a week or two ago. and now, we know a lot. and were learning more. we are concerned about the transmissibility, the contagiousness ...

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 in the omicron variant causes a peculiar test result called an s-gene dropout. >> n-gene is the blue curve and the then the s-gene. >> reporter: making a suspicious case easy to spot for expedited sequencing. >> we have about six samples that have that significant s-gene dropout. >> reporter: but sequencing is required to confir...

Non-citizens will have to be vaccinated. there are other measures that, as the situation evolves, we could see the white house trying to avoid a winter surge. the bottom line for them, christi and boris, is they want to see this pandemic over. thats how they see getting the economy back together, really getting to full force, and also getting their arrpproval number up that have been sinking. thats the bottom line as we approach the winter. >> ending the pandemic, the key that unlocks so much of...

Sorry it took omicron to make people understand how serious this is, because we have been saying and you have been saying that we node to vaccinate the whole world so that we dont give the virus a chance to turn i i i itself into a more effective version. >> reporter: the makers of the vaccines say they can modify their formula, but it will take time. >> if we develop a vaccine, a new vaccine, we will most likely not be able to prevent the first wave of infections with a new vaccine because it w...

And we dont yet know. 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. we are prepared, though, we are doing genomic sequencing in all of the states but it may be that we start to see more omicron than we have delta. and we will be following that very carefully. >> you know, as you mentioned, were doing a lot more sequencing than a year ago or even several mo...

Tonight at 10pm — 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, julie smith contacted us on saturday to say... and richard colborne wondered...