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How severe this parent may be bu researchers are looking at new information. kathy park has more. >> reporter: tonight, the omicron variant on the move, with cases detected in roughly 40 countries, at least 13 states in the u.s. health officials warning expect the numbers to climb. >> we are equipped and prepared to fight the omicron variant head on >> reporter: meanwhile, in sout africa, the first country to report cases of omicron, infections are climbing, and scientists say the new variant is spreading twice as quickly as delta hospitalizations are rising too the world health organization s...

Colorado, georgia, hawaii, maryland, minnesota, missouri, nebraska, new jersey, new york, and utah. pretty soon, the list would be pretty soon to keep naming them. but louisiana is reporting a probable case of the variant, we knew about that yesterday, has not been confirmed to be omicron yet. we should note, while omicron is known to be highly transmissible, to our knowledge, there have not been any reports of infections resulting in serious illness, hospitalization, or death in the united states. now, globally, omicron has spread to more than 40 countries worldwide. researchers might be star...

Chris: welcome back to the reagan national defense forum. now the latest on the developing story. the highly mutated covid very omicron has now been detected in 44 countries and spread to 16 states here in the u.s. health officials are racing to learn more about the new variant. were also dealing with another surge of the delta virus. joining is now u.s. surgeon general vivek murthy. doctor, it's been a little bit more than a week since the world first learned about the omicron variant. i would go over some of the initial findings so far. the variant is spreading more than twice as fast as del...

Everyone else. what do actually know right now? >> i actually feel that a lot of people, including myself, are hesitant because things may change, this is a moving picture. but i want to, before we tell you what i know about omicron, when people hear those, they think, we've been through this for two years and people are overwhelmed. whatever we find out, we're in a better place now than we were in the winter of 2020 a year ago or two years ago because we have all of these things include rapid testing and vaccines. what we know about this variant, genetically, it looks like it might potentiall...

They're going to look to see if you have antibodies, what type of antibodies and what kind of symptoms do you have. they're looking at antibodies, that also would make people question, well, you have antibodies from a vaccine or from having an infection, so a lot of these things, i think, are worded in a way where the politics are being taken into account and then, again, it makes it, you know, even more questionable in terms of should people trust are these policies completely separated from the medical guidance. neil: all right. we'll watch it very closely, doctor, thank you. hope you have a...