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Antibody peak following the second dose of the two dose mrna, its like at this level. if you look at the peak following the third shot boost, it goes way up here. >> reporter: nearly 30% of americans who are eligible have gotten a booster shot and demand is surging with concerns about the omicron variant. >> we were kind of a little bit lazy and didnt get our appointments set up yet, so this kind of pushed us forward. >> reporter: while there is plenty of supply in the pipeline, some pharmacies ...

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 an omicron tailored booster shot. >> the mistake people would make it to say, let me wait and see if we get one. >> reporter: more than 20 countries have now detected the variant in their nations, raising questions about the value of travel bans. >> no one feels that a travel ban is going to prevent people who are infected from coming to the united s...

Antibody, a neutralizing antibody, the peak following a second dose of a two-dose mrna, its like at this level. if you look at the peak involving the third shot boost, it goes way up here. people ask, why is that important? because our experience with variants such as the delta variant is that even though the vaccine isnt specifically targeted to the delta variant, when you get a high enough level of an immune response, you get spillover protection, even against the variant that the vaccine wasn...

Antib antibody, peak following the second dose of a two-dose mrna, its like at this level. if you look at the peak following the third shot boost, it goes way up here and people ask, why is that important? because our experience with variants such as the delta variant is that even though the vaccine isnt specifically targeted to the delta variant, when you get a high enough level of an immune response, you get spillover protection even against a variant that the vaccine wasnt specifically direct...

You want to make sure youre fully vaccinated and you get that booster shot right now to protect you, especially going into the holiday season, from the delta variant, which we know is dominant here, this omicron variant which we know is here now and could possibly be more extensive as time goes on, you want that protection now, that means getting your booster shot now, not waiting for something that could possibly happen and if it does, it will happen sometime in 2022. its going to take a few mo...

0 the president was asked about this earlier this week and he said that had not been recommended to him. youre his chief medical adviser. do you think thats something the country should adopt? >> im not so sure we should say that should be a requirement. we have 60 million people in this country who are not vaccinated, who are eligible to be vaccinated. lets get them vaccinated, lets get the people who are vaccinated boosted, lets get the children vaccinated. thats where we want to go as opposed...

Shot boost that were talking about, it elevated the levels of antibody across the entire spectrum of variants. >> you think this will break the back of the situation we have n ll were dealing with a very wily virus here but right now we want to make sure were ahead of the curve we dont want to wait until theres a breakdown of protection and thats the reason why were doing it now. >> a lot of questions as we enter this new chapter in the fight against covid. in 60 seconds, richard engel in afgh...