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With me isjonathan ball, professor of virology at the university of nottingham, and paul hunter, professor of medicine at the university of east anglia. thank you both not only for doing this but also being willing to put your knowledge against the questions as it were. let's kick straight off all across omicron and the impact of it. paul, claire asked do the current lateral flow tests pick up the new omicron variant? it appears that they d0- — the new omicron variant? it appears that they do. certainly _ the new omicron variant? it appears that they do. certainly early - that they do. certa...

Looking at the genetic code that can give greater transmissibility, the ability for one person to pass it on much more easily to others. however, this is all observational and so the next two weeks what we're likely to see, you know, we've raised a specter of concern. the next two weeks you'll see laboratory data looking to see if it basis the way we expect it to based on its mutations and also to get a better sense of how it appears in patients. we don't currently know anything about the disease it causes, whether it's any different than delta or the initial strains that we've been dealing wi...

Genetic code and the observations from south africa. that's why the w.h.o. has called it concerning because it combines the genetic code that reduces vaccine effectiveness and treatment effectiveness, but also greater transmissibility. >> when you hear that some of these pharmaceutical companies are saying we may have to amend our vaccine somewhat to account for omicron. there are a lot of people who got their vaccine but thaw' now in the booster phase. should they wait to get the boosters? >> absolutely no. go get your booster today. our experience with delta has shown that with that variant,...

You really need to see a huge population have that same variant and get a better sense of how it's distributed. i think the limited observation doesn't say a lot. the concern for the medical community is if you see potentially based on genetic code and it's how it behaves in patients and a laboratory. the concern would be that some of the medical treatments we have such as monoclonal antibodies work. >> we're going to look to what we've already gone through with covid. you have researchers saying omicron does share some similarities with lambda and beta variants that are resistant to our curre...

See a huge surge. looking at the genetic code, a worry that this has a lot of mutations we have seen in other variants that can give greater transmissibility where people can pass it on more easily to one another. and then there is the vaccine effectiveness and monoclonal variant. we can also get a better sense of how it appears in the patient. we don't know more than the delta or initial strength we have been dealing with. >> the travel ban has been imposed on south africa can't