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There and rightly slow about there and rightly slow about the spread of covid coming from china with the countries taking action to try and prevent that? absolutely. we always worry when we see a surge, so many when we see a surge, so many cases when we see a surge, so many cases of covid because the more this virus has an opportunity to spread, the more opportunity it has to mutate. anything can happen when it mutates. it could amount to nothing but it could amount to nothing but it could result in a very variance thatis could result in a very variance that is problematic to the world, more t...

Covid patients and what i can tell you from taking care of my patients is so far everything seems the same. i expect more variants, we expect the virus to mutate, the dominant variant in the united states to be f7, to the xp be, we will hear these different letters and numbers but so far from what i am seeing my patients, the vaccines are doing a good job preventing severe disease and trying to minimize hospitalizations especially for our most vulnerable group, our senior citizens, those over the age of 65 and those with underlying medical conditions, heart disease, obesity or anyone with a we...

In china and spreading? >> they're not panicked, but they are for sure concern. you talked about this surge in china. viruses love surges. it gives them an opportunity each and every person they infect. it's a new opportunity to mutate, to become something bigger, better, stronger. also, they might mutate into something that's not so strong, but they might mutate into something strong. so what each country does is they monitor the variants in their country, and they raise their hand and say, wait a second. i'm seeing something bad here. that's what happened with omicron in south africa. the au...

Vaccination rates, that has to be the biggest concern to some degree. what level of concern do you have about new variants? >> well, the more virus we have circulating in this country and around the world, the more opportunity there is for the virus to mutate. it's important for people to understand that we actually have a program in this country to look for variants of concern entering the iunited states. we test about 10% of arriving passengers at seven airports around the united states, and this gives us actually some surveillance on the pattern of virus entering the united states. so, we h...

Professor anne rimoin from ucla fielding school of public health told me why she was concerned about china's recent surge in covid cases. i think the issue here is that we don't have a lot of data coming out of china right now. we don't have case counts, we don't have good mortality data, and we certainly don't have good sequencing data that could tell us a lot about what variants are circulating and what we could expect. i think the idea of requiring testing, which will allow us to have an idea of what is happening and be able to follow the sequencing and the data, will be a smart move. what ...