Neutralizing Omicron News Today

>> doctor, stand by. i want to go to dr. fauci now. hes briefing. lets listen in. >> to take a look at how we might be prepared in the context of vaccinations. and ill divide it up into two components. next slide. the first is to look at selected in vitro neutralization studies. namely, the capability of vaccine-induced antibodies to neutralize the new omicron variant. next slide. this is data from pfizer at bio-ento be. on the left part of the slide, this is 21 days after the second dose of the...

And most recent data from our own vaccine research center which is the first in a series of data that will be coming out over the next few days and be published in a preprint survey next week, this is a sampling of the data. again, two weeks post dose. look at the omicron i.d. 50 neutralizing activity. substantially low. look at the three dots that are even below the level of the detection. however, if you look at two weeks post the third dose, note the substantial degree of elevation of the neu...

So -- and there are a number of airmen in that process. its -- whats unclear at this point, though, is now that the deadline is today, there still is a counseling process that can continue on for some of these soldiers, airmen and others who decide -- who have not gotten the vaccine yet. its not really -- its not 100% certainty those who arent vaccinated as of today will go through the administrative discharge process. >> got it. art, kourtney from her post at the pentagon. kourtney, thanks as a...

Dr. fauci was stating is that the booster that third dose is critical for increasing antibody titers which is important. were also learning with new data the booster broadens that immune response, and offers us a degree of cross protection from other variants. so if there is any silver lining here, craig, with the omicron variant arriving within the next four weeks and really seeing that surge is that our vaccines work, so we must push urgently, vaccinations and boosters in addition to masking a...

Measured in weeks. however, when you get the booster which is in the red circles for omicron, it increases to 75% effectiveness against symptomatic disease with a booster dose. so what does all of this tell us very clearly and very emphatically? last slide. the omicron variant undoubtedly compromises the effects of a two-dose mrna vaccine-induced antibodies and reduces the overall protection. however, as i showed on a prior slide, considerable protection still maintains against severe disease. t...

Fighting to find mark meadows in contempt of congress. also congress will prevent a debt limit disaster for now. they passed a $2.5 trillion extension. and also in just the last few moments, weve learned that the presidents build back better plan being punted until next year. well have more on that when speaker pelosi takes to the podium. also any minute the white house covid response team holding a briefing as we face the convergence of omicron, delta, and the seasonal flu. the cdc warning that...

Vaccine regimens work against omicron. at this point, there is no need for a variant-specific booster. the message remains clear, if youre unvaccinated, get vaccinated, and particularly in the arena of omicron, if you are fully vaccinated, get your booster shot. back to you, jeff. >> thanks, dr. fauci. as we just discussed, after -- >> all right. dr. fauci giving us the news weve been waiting about two weeks for, youll recall. he said that they were going to be looking at the efficacy of that th...

Effectiveness of a two-dose pfizer vaccine against the omicron variant. on the left hand part, as has been reported in multiple other studies, the effectiveness against the co-v-2 infection is down from 80% from the preomicron variant, but note on the right-hand part of the slide that the effectiveness against hospitalization, which is critical, still maintains a 70% effectiveness. obviously this is significantly down, but there is the maintaining of a degree of protection against hospitalizatio...

Perfect storm of delta, omicron, and the flu. and, of course, all of this is happening as we are ten days away from christmas, and moving into the holiday season. i want to bring in a doctor, a physician at harvard medical school. doctor, as you know, the world health organization director general said on tuesday that this new variant, omicron, spreading at a rate unlike any other previous variant. do we know why that is? >> so its interesting, craig. there were a couple studies that came out in...

On the right hand part of the slide, one month after the third dose, take a look now again at the purple bar. it has gone up substantially from the six which is circled on the left to 154. again, this is one of a number of representative studies. next slide. another study from the rockefeller university in new york funded by the national institute of allergy and infect, diseases, again, showing that omicron exhibits a rather profound degree of neutralization escape, looking at the low levels of ...