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For those parts of the country which are under vaccinated or less vaccinated than what we are seeing, and overall, the trend -- i believe we can be cautiously optimistic about this, that the trend is starting to come down and ultimately as a net effect will come down for the whole country. if we super pose that upon the major availability of testing to the tune of half a billion tests now coming soon and another half a billion, the availability of therapies like pax vid, and other therapies, and...

0 ukraine. at least 130,000 troops and that number has gone up and they continue to conduct live fire exercises. according to the white house, president biden reaffirmed his support. zelensky said theres no need to panic and he knows the situation better than president biden. according to the kremlin, putin told his french counterpart that the u.s. and nato had not addressed his fundamental concerns about security in the region. joining me from kyiv is my partner matt bradley, courtney kube is i...

When, not if. i just say get your third shot. forget about what the definition is. i just want to see people be optimally protected. thats what im concerned about. if me, thats unequivocally and unquestionably getting a third shot boost. >> but apparently, that may not be enough either. pfizers ceo raised the possibility of needing a fourth shot to contend with the omicron variant. so what does that mean for defining the fully vaccinated and when does it end? lets ask dr. francis collins, the di...

Its a milestone we all looked forward to. with the rise of new variants, attention is shifting to boosters, and 15% is still too low, health officials say. its why the fda authorized the pfizer booster for 16 and 17-year-olds today while a growing number of colleges and universities are issuing booster mandates for students. so what should that mean for what we consider a fully vaxed person to be? heres dr. fauci. >> its going to be a matter of when, not if. i just say get your third shot. forge...

Similarity between the moderna and the pfizer product. >> is there any idea what the durability of those boosters are, how long before we need to come back for another? >> we would hope that a third shot boost of an mrna would not only increase the height of the response, the breadth of the response, but were hoping that we will increase the durability of response and there is reason to believe that that might happen, because when you do a boost, you really increase what we call the affinity mat...

Youd like to see the definition change if this is just what the data is showing us? >> you know, kate, for me as a public health person, i just say get your third shot. forget about what the definition is. i just want to see people be optimally protected. thats what im concerned about. for me thats unequivocally and unquestionably getting a third shot boost. >> you mentioned that pfizer -- you said that the government is also working with moderna on continuing to still produce a variant-specific...

Emergency operation center where they are tracking covid, of course, and this new variant in the u.s. right now. and all of this as delta continues at an alarming rate. this new surge with the colder weather here. people, of course, back indoors. more than 117,000 new cases every day now. thats up 46% in a week. new hospital admissions up more than 14% from last week and in children, this was alarming, hospital admissions up nearly 37%. so, tonight here, several questions answered. what has the ...

With the new omicron variant the initial study shows that for people with two doses of the mrna vaccine, the protection against infection -- at least laboratory data, we dont have clinical data yet -- diminishes significantly. however, as people from pfizer pointed out, when you get that third shot boost, it dramatically increases the level of laboratory projected protection. in other words, if you look at the level of antibodies and very likely other immune parameters, that you still stay withi...

To get boosted to do so. >> if you look at the peak following the third shot boost, it goes way up here. >> reporter: fauci warning not to wait for a omicron tailored booster shot. >> the mistake people make is to say let me wait and see if we get one. >> reporter: more than 20 countries detected the variant in their nation raising questions about the value of travel bans. >> no one feels, i certainly dont, that a travel ban will prevent people who are infected from coming to the united states. ...

New variant. >> have they had a booster shot yet? >> to my knowledge no. >> reporter: they returned to the united states on november 22nd and tested positive a week later and isolating as close contacts are being traced and tested. >> all close contacts thus far have tested negative. >> reporter: the news coming as the cdc prepares to tighten testing restrictions on all travelers entering the united states shortening the time frame for a negative test from 72 hours to 24. >> this person, i mean,...