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Medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. this new study is focused on the pfizer vaccine. what does it have to say? >> that's right. i just got off the phone with the lead researcher in south africa on this study. and he said, look, what our study showed is that, first of all, small study, and it was in a lab, but this suggests that this is an escape variant. this is a variant that knows how to some extent outwit the vaccine, but he said he feels pretty confident that if you are fully vaccinated, you will -- that this vaccine will -- that the vaccines will help protect against severe disease. an...

So the question is, will the antibodies generated by the vaccines that we have all had or should have had will that enable us to be protected against this virus? i think there's good reasons to think it will probably be okay but we need to know the real answers to that and that's going to take two or three weeks. >> that's good to know that you think we probably would be okay. in a statement on friday in moderna said "the combination of mutations represents a significant potential risk to accelerate the waning of natural and vaccine-increased immunity. can you explain what that means and is it...

And vaccine-induced immunity. can you explain what that means and is it possible the omicron variant is what scientists like you call an escape variant? >> it's possible, but again, based on what we've learned so far with alpha, beta, gamma and delta, the vaccines which are generated against the original virus hill work and the boosters work particularly well. this is an important point, where people are listening who haven't gotten boosted but did get their original vaccine and eligible, this is another reason to do that now. the booster enlarges the capacity of your immune system to recogniz...

Don't know— ruled out, not least because ijust don't know whether at some time in the future _ don't know whether at some time in the future or next year after that they might be a escape variant. figures released this morning show the rate at which prices are rising jumped to 3.2% last month. it's the sharpest rise in inflation since records began. labour is leading a commons debate later on whether to keep the £20 a week uplift to universal credit. it's currently due to be scrapped in october. 1p coins are being made again after a pause of two years. lockdowns means a lot of coins have be...

Dr. Kirsty Short, a virologist and senior lecturer at “Recent phase 2/3 data from both Novavax and Johnson & Johnson suggest reduced protection against the South African variant,” Dr. Short reports. “The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine group also released data suggesting its vaccine offers only minimal protection against mild-moderate disease caused by this variant.” “It’s important to recognize ‘reduced protection’ doesn’t mean no protection at all, and that data are still emerging” and “What’s more, numerous vaccine manufacturers are now investigating whether tweaks to ...