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Quite rapidly. the interest would be that is particularly contagious. we dont know about the severity. were trying to collect that data as quickly as possible. >> im interested when you talk about spike protein it confuses people when you say various mutation is spike protein. what do you mean by that? >> remember the picture of this virus that has the spikes on the surface which are made up of protein. thats a part of the virus that has to find a receptor receptor on your self to get inside. th...

Efforts. she is the state chair of the democratic party, and she sits in the seat held by the late great congressman john lewis. i am sure he is proud to have a fiery woman like you sitting in that seat, congresswoman williams, thank you so much for being with us tonight. joining me now is my political panel former chair of the maryland democratic party, maya cummings and rick tyler co-founder of strategies and msnbc political analyst. rick, lets start with the new variant of coronavirus. scie...

The science? if we didnt constantly challenge the science, we would still carry things with leeches, we would have leeches on geraldo if he was near covid or something like that. this is crazy. you have one right there. and it is interesting because i do think and its hard for me to say biden did the right thing. but you hear about the mutation, slap a travel ban and assess where the orderly assessment looks like its not that malicious. that is according to goldman sachs and two people i trust m...

The plane in amsterdam, et cetera. however it does appear that an unvaccinated individuals will see more severity which we would expect but in vaccinated people were seeing relatively mild symptoms. >> so lets talk about that. the ceo of moderna, was on our sister network cnbc this morning and said this. >> what this new variant on the vaccine efficacy and which we should know about in two weeks. given the mutation it is highly possible that the efficacy of the vaccine is going down. the second ...

Quite rapidly. the interest would be that is particularly contagious. we dont know about the severity. were trying to collect that data as quickly as possible. >> im interested when you talk about spike protein it confuses people when you say various mutation is spike protein. what do you mean by that? >> remember the picture of this virus that has the spikes on the surface which are made up of protein. thats a part of the virus that has to find a receptor receptor on your self to get inside. th...

Welcome back to "the sunday show." how worried should we be at this point? and what is so concerning about this particular variant? >> yeah, jonathan, good to be with you. i wish it were a bit better news. so ill temper this by saying many of us in the public health community are worried when we seeing some like omicron, 32 mutations on the spike protein, and were worried not just because of the sheer number, those mutations are significantly different to the delta and some of the other viruses ...

From next week. in scotland, wales and northern ireland theyre already mandatory on public transport and in many indoor areas. katharine da costa reports. it is hard to believe just a week ago no—one had heard of omicron, a highly mutated covid variant that may spread more rapidly and make vaccines less effect give it up but with a confirmation of two cases of the variant in the uk, concerns have escalated quickly. fill" the variant in the uk, concerns have escalated quickly.— escalated qui...

Again become compulsory in shops and on public transport in england from next week. in scotland, wales and northern ireland theyre already mandatory on public transport and in many indoor areas. katharine da costa reports. it is hard to believe just a week ago no—one had even heard of omicron, a highly mutated covid variant that may spread more rapidly and could make vaccines less effective. but with the confirmation of two cases of the variant here in the uk, concerns have escalated quickly. ...

Sequencing." messaging has been a huge hurdle this pandemic. you know that better than anyone. what kind of message, the way the u.s. has responded, send it to other countries in the fight with us in trying to detect these new genomes? will they be fearful about releasing information about a new strain if they feel they are being punished or being retaliated against just simply because they detected this new mutation? >> the irony is immense in the situation because south africa is basically bei...

Were trying to do everything we can to balance where the burden of disease is, the highest death rate to get this vaccine out to as many people who need it. >> some health experts have told us this is more lily transmissible, you can infect up to 50 people. it seems more virus would likely lead to more mutation. how specifically going forward will moderna be addressing this very highly transmissible variant and the likelihood that, as it continues to spread, there will be more variants? >> i thi...