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Part, you know, we're still waiting for that laboratory data, but the reason you see myself and many other infectious disease docs and immunologists say we are going to be protected against infectious or severe diseases because no other variant has completely reduced or eradicated the protection against severe disease and death, and that's why those vaccines are so important, and the boosters from what we know now, these boosters are increasing not just your antibodies but more and more studies are coming out that they're giving you a much more mature immune response. that might be helpful par...

Because the cases are increasing in south africa. you are seeing clusters of cases where tons of people have become infected from a primary index person who has omicron. i would say, for the booster part, we are still waiting on that laboratory data. but the reason you see myself and many other infectious disease doctor's an immunologist say with more confidence that we are probably going to be protected against infection for severe diseases because no other variant today brian, has reduced complete, or completely reduced eradicated protection against severe disease. and that is why those vacc...

Unknown. we'll get the laboratory data in a couple of weeks, but we'll have to get the experience from our south african colleagues about what the real clinical effect is going to be. >> dr. fauci, good evening. you just heard kaitlan collins report talking about the fact that the president is going to be laying out a strategy on how to fight covid this winter. now, as his chief medical adviser, i'm curious what are you telling him the most important thing to stress is to the country and what, if any, policy changes do you think should be implemented? kaitlyn, for example, mentioned the possib...

From people who have recovered from covid as well as individuals who have been vaccinated and who have developed different types of antibodies to block the virus, and we'll see if, in fact, this particular virus is still sensitive to the antibodies that were induced by the vaccines that we're using. we expect -- and i wouldn't be surprised -- if the level of protection diminishes somewhat given the p constellations of mutations that we would see that would suggest immune evasion there. you never know until you test it in an in vetoitro or test tube situation, and then you get into real world d...

Milder disease. and you said we just don't have enough data at this point. >> this is pretty hard to answer, and when we look at the previous variants, the early answers end up being wrong. i would love it if this caused a milder disease, i just haven't seen anything one way or the other, so i think the jury is out on this question. >> the third question is will it render us immune from other variants and are vaccines less effective? >> let's be clear on what we think is likely and unlikely. i think some people propose that our vaccines just won't work. i think that's extremely, extremely unli...