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Stand on forcing the issue? >> you know, i never liked the idea of forcing the issue. the only thing, neil, that is important is that we know the importance of vaccination. we know the data is overwhelming in protecting people against the disease, hospitalization and certainly death. that even now as we enter into this new era of omicron, that people would appreciate why it's so important. >> neil: i know the fda is aiming for a speedy review of the omicron vaccines and drugs. do we know that the treatments that are already out there, the veeps out there, the booster shots can address this? >>...

Given what we know about the trans missability advantage of omicron, we've seen that in africa with the spikes that are going up. once it gets in there, it will likely under the radar be spreading no matter what you do to keep people out or not. that's the way viruss work. we saw that happen with delta. i do hope that omicron doesn't have that kind of advantage, particularly if it turns out to be serious. the good news you mentioned is even though you can't make a full extrapolation on a small number of cases, we don't see severe disease. >> neil: doctor, many times we talked in the past, you ...

Within the next week or so maybe the week to ten days, we'll be able to assay those anti-bodies on the omicron strain and the omicron variant. so we'll be able to know the level of the degree of neutralization. if you make an extrapolation and look at convalescent anti-bodies from being infected, when they go up, they spill over to other variants. so you can make an assumption that we'll prove as high you get with your response to a primary vaccination and a boost, we'll have a beneficial effect in protecting you at least from severe disease from omicron. we'll be able to prove that pretty qui...

>> neil: omicron is in eight states. yesterday at this time it looked like two. it's already in close to 40 countries, spreading. dr. fauci stopped by today earlier on fox business. we talked about this idea of community spread and he confirmed, it's spreading. take a look. >> there's community spread. once you have community spread, then you'll be seeing cases popping up all over the place because they're under the radar screen. we know from delta that a substantial proportion of cases can be without symptoms and can spread to another person even if you don't have any symptoms. so the very fa...

After st. louis fed president jimmy bullard chimed in talking about the need to not only taper but raise rates simultaneously versus being mutually exclusive. that sent the market in a tail spin. >> neil: then you have to worry about the omicron thing. nobody knows how far this goes and how much it progresses. the fear is that people delay returning to work, google is already pushing back their demands for people to return to work indefinite will in to next year. this is building and this reluctance to venture out. i'm sure this variant isn't helping. >> no, i'm sure the variant isn't helping....