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As a result of the World Health Organization's designation of the new, highly contagious Omicron strain as a variant of concern on Nov 26

Thailand's prime minister has insisted that despite concerns over the new Coronavirus Omicron, the country will not reimpose any lockdowns

The Immigration Bureau and Ministry of Public Health report they are tracking down approximately 783 Africans who entered Thailand

Important? because our experience with variants such as the delta variant is that even though the vaccine isn't specifically targeted to the delta variant, when you get a high enough level of an immune response, you get spillover protection even against a variant that the vaccine wasn't specifically directed at. even though we don't have data on it, there's every reason to believe that that kind of increase you get with that boost would be effective on omicron. >> erin mclaughlin, you're in san diego, at a place where they've been doing some pretty state of the art testing to try and detect th...

Administration's view or that of other vaccine makers? >> i think -- i know that we don't have enough information right now. as we know, and you've said that, that the molecular profile of the kinds of mutations that you see would suggest, a, that it might be more transmissible, and that it might elude some of the protection of vaccines. but we don't know that now. we don't know what the constellation of mutations are actually going to be. we have to be prepared that there's going to be a diminution in protection, which is the reason why i keep getting back over and over again to say why it's ...