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>> you know, there's plenty other reasons to question that proposal that theory about herd immunity. didn't make sense. it would result in the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of lives. what we have found since then is that the virus is so capable of shape shifting it gets in the way of herd immunity. we might have herd immunity to the wuhan virus but not to omicron. it's like we have a new character here, a screwed up sibling of what we started with and our immune system has potential to fight it off but it's challenging. so the herd immunity concept immunes that you deal with the same viru...

Mrna vaccines and therapeutics and it's our responsibility to do this. we don't know where omicron is going. and we take this responsibility seriously and working on that vaccine. >> neil: what does that mean, doctor? we see the studies that say a booster shot, yours included would be 50 times more effective at dealing with omicron. does that mean that the third shot or a fourth shot is in order? what are we looking at here? >> i think it's confusing, neil. what the data broadly tells us today is that after two shots compared to your two initial vaccinations, if you get a booster, you can ramp...

United states postal service. >> neil: if the chief medical officer is right at moderna, that he thinks omicron and covid-19 will be around awhile, what does francis collins think about that? dr. collins, great to see you. what do you make of what he said? >> you know, i don't think anybody really can make a hard and fast prediction at this point. we've known about omicron less than a month and clearly it's very contagious. you can see it's doubling every two or three days in south africa, the u.k. and now the u.s. but to look in the crystal ball and say what this will look like in three or fo...

Have never seen before. new york is a popular global tourist destination this time of the year and the u.s. has restricted travel from south africa and several other nations. other countries have been imposing more severe restrictions. france suspending all-nonessential travel and japan shutting down its borders. major league sports are also trying to prevent omicron from interrupting their season. the nfl just delaying three games. the nhl now shutting down colorado and florida games and the nba says that all players will be tested daily after the highest number of players entering covid prot...

Then, when will we need it, how will we want to use an omicron specific booster. those are questions, neil, that we just don't have answers to yet but will be critical. >> neil: do you think some of the measures that are being taken worldwide doctor, including france putting a lid on visitors from britain because of the spike there or a lot of businesses the united states keeping remote work going for at least the next couple months in the case of apple, an indefinite suspension of such policies. we heard four shows are cancelled in broadway because one or several cast members had omicron. i'm...