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30 to 40-fold rise in your virus neutralizing antibodies. and we know from other partial vaccine resistant variants like the beta variant that was first identified in south africa last year and the lambda variant, when you have high virus neutralizing antibodies, you have spillover or cross protection against the variant of concern. i am hoping that for those people who have had that third immunization, that that will be the case, they won't get infected or sick from the omicron variant. what may have happened in this individual that tony alluded to, although i wasn't too clear on the specific...

0 the president was asked about this earlier this week and he said that had not been recommended to him. you're his chief medical adviser. do you think that's something the country should adopt? >> i'm not so sure we should say that should be a requirement. we have 60 million people in this country who are not vaccinated, who are eligible to be vaccinated. let's get them vaccinated, let's get the people who are vaccinated boosted, let's get the children vaccinated. that's where we want to go as opposed to a requirement. >> reporter: some people say you have extinguished many of your options to...

As the World Health Organization announces that omircon has been classified as a “variant of concern,” many are asking about the difference between this...

First of all, in terms of disease severity, so far, the early reports suggest it's not producing more severe disease in anything we've seen before. delta, the delta variant or the alpha variant. i think the most -- what most -- concerns most people is the fact that there are more than 30 mutations in the spike protein, which is pretty high, including those in the receptor binding domain. that interacts with the receptor so there's worry that this could thwart some of the protection afforded by the immune response to vaccines. but we'll know that over the next week or two. so in our lab, we're ...

As always, with a new variant, there are many things that we just cannot know at this early stage. but our scientists are learning more hour by hour. >> reporter: now, as you said, there are now confirmed cases inside the u.s. right now, but dr. fauci, other public health officials have all acknowledged it is possible that the omicron variant is already inside american borders and just hasn't been detected yet. it has been detected here in israel, in one traveler who recently returned from malawi, and the israeli government is reopening these dreaded so-called corona hotels. these are hotels w...