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Want to be prepared for. i hate to be caught short and find out that, even though temporarily that boost works but then it falls off rapidly, and you might need a variant-specific boost. you want to always try to stay a step or two ahead of the virus. that s what preparing to make a variant-specific booster does. absolutely. separate from the pfizer announcement, you said yesterday it appears that with the case of omicron confirmed so far, you re not seeing a very severe profile of disease. and i m wondering if, from the data that you ve seen so far, is that among both vaccinated and unvaccinated? well, that s a great question. the overwhelming majority of clinical data we don t have any clinical data yet in our own country because we don t have enough people with omicron infection. but in south africa they have a very interesting demographic breakdown. they have people that are ....
Dr. osterhol m great so see you. a lot of optimism from that pfizer doctor this morning. do you share his optimism based on what we ve seen so far? this is company data, this is not fda data. i do share the optimism. i must add it s not a real surprise. we anticipated that that would be how the data would look. we just have to remind everyone, however, this doesn t mean this is how this is going to happen overnight. the fda needs to do its careful analysis in terms of working with how well the vaccine worked in terms of its immune response but also the safety issue. the final point i just want to emphasize, andrea, and i think it s so critical, we have a vaccine now that s been approved for those 12 years of age and older, and yet we only have about one-half of those 12 to 17 years of age vaccinated in this country. so, you know, turning a vaccine into a vaccination is what is really the critical step. so this is a first step today with the pfizer announcement, but it s hardly the la ....