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Damage. to the point about the vaccine. i want to make an important point this has been a hyperfocus in the media on neutralizing antibodies that we track to see how well the vaccine is working. from are t-cells and b-cells. that's what your body remembers from the vaccine. it amps up when it sees the virus and produces more antibodies that go for the variant. that's why you are seeing mild breakthrough cases. i am for the booster shots but if you are vaccinated or over covid and got a vaccine you are protected against anything other than a mild case. >> john: that's good news. i want to raise...

Previewed, that showed that there was 40 times less likely to be protected from the vaccine with omicron, then -- than with delta even, that of course is a worrying piece of information to hear, especially driving in your car. but it is a potential problem. however, we still believe that the vaccines will prevent, as i was saying earlier, serious disease and deaths. and don't forget the one thing people should remember is that what they're measuring in these little research studies right now that we have so far on omicron is they're measuring neutralizing antibodies. but there are other parts ...

Big picture, the global impact, the 60 million or so americans who are still unvaccinated. for those of us who have been following the science and following the recommendation, i think that we all can still feel reasonably in control of this, which, you know, might sound a little bit, you know, sort of in contrast to the messaging about the variant, but listen, people really do need to understand that vaccination plus boosting really does in all likelihood confer a significant amount of protection still, chris. remember what happens when you get a booster or a vaccine. you get a significant ri...

That there's no evolutionary advantage to a virus to become more severe, because it will die off with the host it infects. so what i suspect we are going to hear in a matter of weeks is that it is more contagious, to what degree i don't know, and probably evades immune protection from vaccination, again partially. to what degree, we don't know. but i want to reiterate and remind everybody out there, if you'll indulge me for a second, the way the immune system works, if there is a blunted antibody response, if you've been vaccinated, if you come into contact with this variant, you might have a ...

0 reports." andrea is on assignment. i'm chris jansing. we're following that breaking news from the white house. president biden addressing the nation this hour after a second meeting with his covid response team in just two days. highlighting the urgency the administration is feeling to learn everything they can about the concerning new coronavirus variant omicron with confirmed cases already at our northern aborter in ontario, canada. there are still a number of things we don't know about this variant with the white house releasing a statement sunday saying dr. fauci believes it will take up...