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Each winter. >> laura: we need it or does moderna need it? what is the evidence of any of this? >> the omicron -- the b 11529 variant has 30 mutations. the domain has been changed with ten mutations there. it's not going to be as infectious. the early reports from dr. fantini in france indicates the transmissibility index of the omicron variant is far less than delta. so it doesn't look like it's going to be a dominant strain. i think it will be like the lambda and the epsilon variants described in the most recent year of covid-19. it will be a minor variant. i wouldn't be looking for it wrapp...
Will, as a regular thing. laura: we need it or does moderna need it? what is the evidence of any of this? >> the oma cron variant looks like an evolutionary mistake a 30 mutations in the spike protein, three deletions and one insertion, almost certainly the receptor body domain has been changed, it is not going to be as infectious. the early reports from the university to indicate the transmissibility index of the oma cron variant is less and delta. doesn't look like it will have the evolutionary efficiency to become a dominant strain. it will be like the lambda and epsilon variants previously...
By Jennifer Juno Senior research fellow, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Adam Wheatley Senior Research Fellow, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Mel Melbourne, Nov 29 The Conversation The emergence of a new SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern, Omicron, has reignited global discussions of vaccine distribution, virus mutation, and immunity against new virus strains.Some experts have suggested the emergence of a new strain could be a result of low levels of vaccine coverage in developing nations.So how do new virus variants emerge
What about omicron gives you that confidence? what part of it? because there's all these mutations which is obviously freaking out -- this is a more mutated virus than i guess was expected this early, correct? >> well, what we've seen is when you get really very, very high levels of virus neutralizing antibody, when we looked at it against the beta variant that came out of south africa last year, or the lambda which had some of the same mutations as omicron, yes, you got a decrease in virus neutralizing antibody with it but if you had enough to begin with, it seemed to hold you over. there was...