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Pfizer said its booster helps with omicron but the two-dose vaccine may not be enough. what's your sense on the booster shot as a whole? should we expect a similar result from moderna? when will we know about that? and is this the proof that every america should be getting the third shot? >> yeah, jonathan, i think it is. and i think it will be changing what is the definition of fully immunized. i think that will happen sooner than later. and i do think moderna's data is days behind. this is lab data, so it's not real world data from pfizer, jonathan. the current vaccines will likely hold, but...

Work very well. and the vaccine certainly takes a hit, but it still is protective it appears against severe disease. before i talk about the data that pfizer has, i know that people listening are thinking, yeah, well, pfizer thinks three shots is better than two, what a surprise that a pharmaceutical company wants to sell more shots. and while i understand that cynicism and to some extent share it, it is interesting and important to note that the pfizer data really meshes with data from a south africa lab and also meshes with what doctors like the doctor we heard from are seeing in south afric...

With the new omicron variant the initial study shows that for people with two doses of the mrna vaccine, the protection against infection -- at least laboratory data, we don't have clinical data yet -- diminishes significantly. however, as people from pfizer pointed out, when you get that third shot boost, it dramatically increases the level of laboratory projected protection. in other words, if you look at the level of antibodies and very likely other immune parameters, that you still stay within the level of protection, which is really very encouraging news because everyone obviously is conc...

Brand new hour, glad you're here with us, i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm alisyn camerota. we begin with what president biden is calling good news in the pandemic. pfizer says its early lab data showed a booster shot of its vaccine can neutralize the omicron variant which has now been detected in 21 states. the president's chief medical adviser says he's encouraged by this booster news. >> when you're entering into an arena of a new variant with very many unknown aspects about it, you always have a degree of anxiety about how it's going to turn out. so the news we got last night and this morn...

We may find out lab data in the next week which looks at antibody levels and how that controls this variant but that;s lab data. it will take several more weeks to get real—world data to see how effective the vaccines are. let's take a look at the latest covid figures there have been 5a new deaths, that his death recorded within 28 days of a positive covid test. the business secretary, kwasi kwarteng, has criticised the failure to reconnect thousands of homes which have been without power for nine days. the energy networks association estimates that about 4000 properties are still affected f...