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That will restore that level of virus neutralizing antibody and keep them protected a short period of time. for a couple of months over the omicron surge. so that -- so that would be a very interesting use of the vaccine, because, remember, we don't have a lot of other tools. the at least one maybe two of the monoclonal antibodies is not working against the omicron variant because of the spike protein mutations. and also we're not having paxil individual. and i proposed a second booster to the health care providers to keep them in the workforce during this difficult time. >> gloria, vaccinatio...

Question i canned. we have had it described to us, this new variant, as having a very large number of mutations, a large number of mutations specifically effecting the spike protein, which has been a real target for the development of our vaccines. can you tell us why a large number of mutations is worrying and why that's bad, why the spike protein mutations might be worying or bad? >> we have some experience with some of these mutations because we've seen some of those mutations in other variants, and those mutations can affect transmissibility and they can affect how well our vaccines work. ...

About the people that have tested positive for this new variant? were they vaccinated? were they priorly infected by another covid variant? do we know any of this information as of yet? >> hi, yasmin. thank you so much for having me. what we know so far is in south africa and specifically in johannesburg, the people who have been infected with this variant are mostly young and mostly unvaccinated. i think about between 75% and 80% of them were unvaccinated. another concern is that there seem to be a few cases of reinfection with this variant. so, that's obviously another concern. what was note...