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Example, could help us to stem the delta surge. getting prepared is exactly the right thing for us to do at this point. >> sanjay, can you just give us kind of the long view in this? because just hearing this, i main i think like a lot of people, when i heard this news i just thought, you know, it seems like -- you know, relatively speaking, things were going in the right direction. then this thing comes along. but as we were talking about, unless everybody gets vaccinated around the world or ha...

Immune system against this particularly mutated virus? for that matter, how long is it going to take for us to know whether our vaccines work against this virus? theyre testing it now. report in "the new york times" that scientists in south africa started within one hour of the mutation first being reported -- the variant first being described, within one hour they were trying to test the effectiveness of various vaccines we already got against this variant. how long will that testing take? if t...

Around the shield of those vaccinated. thats a big one. this is a mutation that has something like 30 changes to it. thats sort of the most number of mutations of any of the variants weve seen so far. it really looks more transmissible. we just dont know yet how more dangerous it is for those who get it. so that is the question right now. so joe biden really cant say anything other than weve got to wait and see. in the meantime, most people including dr. fauci are confident the vaccine will prov...

Worried about, or at least the ones that i understand better, first of all they say that there is a large number of mutations in this variant. and a large number compared to other non variants like the delta variant. right? why is that bad? why is that worse to have large numbers? of the mutation, in particular if they appear to be a large number of mutations on the spike protein. we know that the spike protein is what was targeted by vaccine makers, as effectively the way to activate our immune...

Fauci, says it could be weeks before we know more about the severity of this mutation, and the world health organization says it may take up to a month to tell if the current vaccines are effective against omicron. meantime, the advice from health experts and the president is very familiar. if you havent gotten a vaccine, get one. if you have, get a booster. wear a face mask. wash your hands. and practice social distancing. >> sooner or later were going to see cases of this new variant here in t...

Regulation. so thieves are able to take items and sell it. that marketplace and opportunity is not disappearing until after the holiday season. >> bill: fair point. nice to see you on madison avenue. >> president biden: we have the best vaccine in the world, the best medicines, the best scientists, and we are learning more every single day. and well fight this variant with scientific and knowledgeable actions and speed, not chaos and confusion. >> dana: president biden on the fight against the o...

Well, as im beginning to understand it, its not as much the sheer number of mutations. its where those mutations are, what those mutations do. what insight are you gaining into that at this point? >> well, i mean, we know some of these mutations. like you said, its kind of a frankenstein, so weve never seen this constellation of mutations before or this number of mutation, but weve seen those guys in other variants and in viruses that were subc subcritical, right, so weve seen evolution events i...

What is it about this variant that youve seen so far that has everybody so alarmed that the other variants weve had in between, delta and this one -- delta alarmed folks. this one alarmed folks. lambda and mu, for instance, hasnt. what makes omicron so concerning to you? >> right now what we have is we have the window into the mutations that are in this new variant, and they are troublesome in the fact that there are about 32 or more variants in that very important spike protein of the virus, wh...

Doing anything to screen international travels for the variant and what is being done, if anything, internally to see if the variant is already right? >> president biden: theres a lot being done. im going to turn to dr. fauci to answer that last question about what is being done. doc? >> thank you, mr. president. we are to have it in place will bill government united states that they have to be tested before they get on and they have to show vaccination documentation. even before omicron came in...

The omicron coronavirus variant is the new wrinkle in this pandemic that just wont quit. what we dont know outpaces what we do. but the president did put new travel restrictions in place already as a precaution and the biden covid team now, along with their global colleagues, rushing to study how transmissible and how deadly this new variant is. heres one giant question. does the new mutation evade the covid vaccines defenses? lets get straight to the white house and our chief white house corres...