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>> doctor, stand by. i want to go to dr. fauci now. he's briefing. let's listen in. >> to take a look at how we might be prepared in the context of vaccinations. and i'll divide it up into two components. next slide. the first is to look at selected in vitro neutralization studies. namely, the capability of vaccine-induced antibodies to neutralize the new omicron variant. next slide. this is data from pfizer at bio-ento be. on the left part of the slide, this is 21 days after the second dose of the pfizer product. note the purple bar in the middle on the left. it's omicron. clearly a substanti...

And most recent data from our own vaccine research center which is the first in a series of data that will be coming out over the next few days and be published in a preprint survey next week, this is a sampling of the data. again, two weeks post dose. look at the omicron i.d. 50 neutralizing activity. substantially low. look at the three dots that are even below the level of the detection. however, if you look at two weeks post the third dose, note the substantial degree of elevation of the neutralizing titer well within the range of neutralizing omicron. next slide. now we look at selected c...

So -- and there are a number of airmen in that process. it's -- what's unclear at this point, though, is now that the deadline is today, there still is a counseling process that can continue on for some of these soldiers, airmen and others who decide -- who have not gotten the vaccine yet. it's not really -- it's not 100% certainty those who aren't vaccinated as of today will go through the administrative discharge process. >> got it. art, kourtney from her post at the pentagon. kourtney, thanks as always. right now the white house covid response team is holding their briefing. and this brie...

Dr. fauci was stating is that the booster that third dose is critical for increasing antibody titers which is important. we're also learning with new data the booster broadens that immune response, and offers us a degree of cross protection from other variants. so if there is any silver lining here, craig, with the omicron variant arriving within the next four weeks and really seeing that surge is that our vaccines work, so we must push urgently, vaccinations and boosters in addition to masking and crowd size and ventilation. >> all right. doctor, thank you. thanks to dr. fauci as well for tha...

Measured in weeks. however, when you get the booster which is in the red circles for omicron, it increases to 75% effectiveness against symptomatic disease with a booster dose. so what does all of this tell us very clearly and very emphatically? last slide. the omicron variant undoubtedly compromises the effects of a two-dose mrna vaccine-induced antibodies and reduces the overall protection. however, as i showed on a prior slide, considerable protection still maintains against severe disease. the early in vitro and clinical studies i mentioned indicate that boosters reconstitute the antibody ...