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On Sept. 11, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the updated COVID-19 vaccines. These vaccines, are "formulated to more closely target currently circulating variants (Including Omicron variant XBB.1.5.) and to provide better protection against serious consequences of COVID-19, including hospitalization and death," according to the FDA statement found on their website. Everyone six months and older is recommended to get the updated vaccine.

Have two studies coming out in the last week that look at parts of the immune system that are much harder to study than simple antibody levels which you may know, you can look at just with a drop of blood. these studies looked at memory t and b cells and these are cells that once they encounter the infection, sort of go into hiding and if the infection comes out again they get super activated and start pumping out all kinds of things. what these studies showed is the memory cells that were induced by the vaccines were actually quite robust and good and gave a very good immune response to the n...

According to tsa, today is set to be one of the busiest of the holiday travel period. they're anticipating 20 million people will fly between today and january 3rd. the uptick in travel comes amid fears of the omicron variant spreading rapidly across the country. in addition to those 100 united flights canceled earlier, we just learned delta has canceled 93 christmas eve flights, due to multiple issues, including omicron. what do we really know about the virus and how it's transmitted? "360"'s randi kaye went looking for answers. >> heavy cough, sfwlee -- three, two, one. >> reporter: inside t...

Enough high quality masks out there for people. we are seeing this omicron variant really rip through america. >> do you think that other industries should join suit here? the airlines, delta, has written a letter asking for guidelines to be changed to get workers who are vaccinated and testing negative even if they had omicron, if they can get them back? united had to cancel 100 flights on christmas eve. clearly, there's a need. >> again, the science suggests we can shorten that window somewhat. we need to continue to follow the science. i don't understand why you would have a different set o...

Have not yet gotten it. >> just the other day former president trump announced he got his booster shot. maybe one of the few things he and i agree on. >> tonight, we are learning about an exciting new development that may help point the way, to a post pandemic reality. defense one reports that scientists at the walter reed army institute of research, expect to announce in a few weeks, that they have developed, a single shot vaccine, that pretext against covid-19, in all of its variants, including omicron. even, so the cdc is forecasting a grim scenario for the coming. weeks of washington post ...