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30 to 40-fold rise in your virus neutralizing antibodies. and we know from other partial vaccine resistant variants like the beta variant that was first identified in south africa last year and the lambda variant, when you have high virus neutralizing antibodies, you have spillover or cross protection against the variant of concern. i am hoping that for those people who have had that third immunization, that that will be the case, they won't get infected or sick from the omicron variant. what may have happened in this individual that tony alluded to, although i wasn't too clear on the specific...

0 the president was asked about this earlier this week and he said that had not been recommended to him. you're his chief medical adviser. do you think that's something the country should adopt? >> i'm 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. let's get them vaccinated, let's get the people who are vaccinated boosted, let's get the children vaccinated. that's where we want to go as opposed to a requirement. >> reporter: some people say you have extinguished many of your options to...

Already to less severe disease. >> so, what do we know about the medical community? i mean, about what they expect during this critical two-week period as the world is waiting to see how the various vaccines respond? >> well, this is the critical period. and earlier-this year, we were in a lab where they were trying to do just the same thing with the beta variant. challenging live virus in the lab to get a sense if it escapes previous immunity. and crucially, the vaccines. now, a bit of good news, though it's early days, there is expectation from scientists here that it will hold up on some le...

Saying they are seeing less severe cases. but the early cluster outbreak of this surge was from a university. you know, so that lends itself already to less severe disease. >> so, what do we know about the medical community? i mean, about what they expect during this critical two-week period as the world is waiting to see how the various vaccines respond? >> well, this is the critical period. and earlier-this year, we were in a lab where they were trying to do just the same thing with the beta variant. challenging live virus in the lab to get a sense if it escapes previous immunity. and crucia...

You would know whether or not the current vaccines are effective against this variant? >> well, we're going get think think in the next week and a half, to the next two weeks so our vaccine group, the way you do that is you take either experimental animals or individuals who have been vaccinated with your vaccine and you measure virus neutralizing antibodies against the original lineage because that's how the vaccines were made and you compare it to the neutralizing agents against the omicron variant and almost certainly you'll see a decrease. we've seen that before with the beta variant that ...