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Likely not be the last coronavirus variant. >> omicron is like a wake-up call as though we needed another wake-up call to vaccinate the world. one of the best ways to keep americans safe is actually to vaccinate the world. >> reporter: because the more the virus spreads, the more it mutates. china has promised to send another billion vaccine doses to africa. italy calling on wealthy countries to not just dish out doses but actually help getting them into arms. and the cdc is now stepping up surveillance at four of our busiest international airports. jfk, newark, atlanta and san francisco. they...

Day they become more and more susceptible to getting infected and we're only boosting about 35 million of those 120 million. so this is a real challenge. we've got to get people vaccinated, both first doses, and boosters as soon as possible. >> and what do you make of what we, i mean, former u.k. prime minister gordon brown wrote a piece in the guardian saying that this is essentially chickens coming home to roost, that the wealthier nations did not do enough over the last year to make sure that the poor countries across the world got those shots so that now as it continues to spread, it mutat...

We can get technology to the world faster. the single biggest gap here has remained the global response, so we have 80% of many european countries vaccinated and only 10%, 15% of countries in africa, if that. that is the gap that is causing this virus to replicate, you know, to move around, and the more it replicates, the more it mutates, which has changed forms. but the bottom line is we have lived off testing for the variant for a long time. we have to learn how to protect ourselves and not shut down the entire global economy again, because that is not an option. >> these travel options base...

Republic of congo, travel thed through europe, so there was a wide variety of people wearing masks on airplanes. you're in close proximity, so it's a good idea to have extra layers of protection. there's nothing like added layers to prevent potential of spread. arthel: absolutely. and, listen, there have been other variants in between delta and omicron. explain why these different variants continue to crop up. >> well, the thing is about this virus just like other viruses, the more opportunity it has to spread, the more opportunity it has to replicate. and when it replicates, it mutates. when ...

That's what we expect from politicians now. especially with covid. so when it comes to the politics of covid, sitting at home deciding whether you're going to let the fear control your life or no respect at all, americans have figured that out. politicians won't change that. they're not going to do it on the bully pulpit with joe biden. this is a man that stood up there and really just destroyed president trump for everything he did to include a travel ban, everything from destroying him for doing it, calling it racist and then destroying him for not doing it quick enough. how can he do the ex...