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Virus has to do that, the less likelihood a virus has to mutate, the less likely you're going to get a variant. so one of the things we need to do about our long end game is to do the things we've been saying every single day. not only for ourselves but internationally. and you know, we have done a lot and we'll continue to do a lot to get lower and middle income countries vaccinated. [ inaudible question ] oh, absolutely. there's no doubt that this will end, i promise you that. this will end. >> i'm sorry, we have to let dr. fauci go. thank you for coming. appreciate it. they're going to be d...

And get your booster now. i thought peter had a fantastic question. it kind of gets to the meat of what's happening here. there's a lot we don't know about this variant. there's a lot we don't know about its transmissibility, whether it can break through the vaccine, whether it can break through other immunities we might have. the treatments going on, will they still work with this variant? we still don't know about those things. it will take a few weeks if not even longer than that to find those out. once they do that, looking at the vaccine itself, vaccine manufacturers had said it's going t...

>> an s-drop. all right. erin mclaughlin, thank you so much. dr. peter hotez, monica alba, and dr. john torres, thank you for getting us through this breaking news. everybody, remember, health officials said they expected this variant to be here. what they were doing is trying to buy time with those travel bans. they are cautioning, do not panic, they are testing the variant right now to try and figure out how contagious it is, how serious it is. remember, the person who has it so far, that we know, here in the united states is fully vaxed, two vaccines, two shots, and has mild symptoms, is ge...

Get here, they knew it was going to be here, but to buy this country some time to get prepared and to get as many people vaccinated and then boosted as possible before it did get here. so far, they are trying to contain the spread. but it does likely appear, according to health officials, that the cat was always going to be out of the bag on this. joining me now to discuss further is nbc news white house correspondent monica alba, nbc news correspondent erin mclaughlin from los angeles, nbc news medical correspondent dr. john torres, and the co-director for the center for vaccine development a...

But the mistake people would make is to say, let me wait and see if we get one. if you're eligible to get boosted, get boosted right now. >> reporter: there is screening in place for international travel but we've seen how quickly variants can spread once they reach our shores. does the science not suggest there should at minimum be a testing requirement for domestic air travel? and if not, why not? >> again, these kind of things we always talk about and consider. but right now, i'm not so sure we need a testing for air travel in this country. i always get back to the fact that people should w...