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Africa suggests that possibility, and that basically having omicron take over, that it could mitigate the more severe consequences of this virus. >> well, thanks for having me, paula. i think there's very clear evidence that omicron is becoming the dominant strain, has already done so in many parts of the world. so in that sense, yes, it is displacing other variants like the delta that we've been struggling with in the past. but i would caution against the idea that this is somehow less severe. yes, in individual cases there is evidence that the likelihood to progress towards more severe disea...

As you say, probably about a couple of weeks behind. you know, the good news is that these early data do suggest that an individual is less likely to develop severe disease requiring hospitalization, but of course, you know, we're seeing here numbers that are twice as high as what we've seen in previous peaks roughly. so even if you're about half as likely to end up at hospital, at a population level, we're already seeing pressure put on the nhs with about 1,000 hospitalizations yesterday. so it's a very difficult period. what i worry about in the u.s. is that the levels of vaccination there a...

Vaccinated. >> bret: but you have had omicron and you get through it, which most people are, does that provide immunity for delta or vice versa? >> yeah. really important. we're starting to look at the studies now in the lab. that will try and inform the question of the cross reactive protection of delta to omicron and the fact of omicron to delta and those studies are just emerging right now. we do know that there is less cross protection from prior variants to omicron and the studies of whether omicron will protect you from other variants, those studies are just emerging. and then, of course...

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