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Antibody peak following the second dose of the two dose mrna, it's like at this level. if you look at the peak following the third shot boost, it goes way up here. >> reporter: nearly 30% of americans who are eligible have gotten a booster shot and demand is surging with concerns about the omicron variant. >> we were kind of a little bit lazy and didn't get our appointments set up yet, so this kind of pushed us forward. >> reporter: while there is plenty of supply in the pipeline, some pharmacies temporarily running out. >> i got a text, "your appointment has been canceled." >> yeah, now the f...

To get boosted to do so. >> if you look at the peak following the third shot boost, it goes way up here. >> reporter: fauci warning not to wait for an omicron tailored booster shot. >> the mistake people would make it to say, let me wait and see if we get one. >> reporter: more than 20 countries have now detected the variant in their nations, raising questions about the value of travel bans. >> no one feels that a travel ban is going to prevent people who are infected from coming to the united states. but we needed to buy some time. >> reporter: fauci offering this advice for americans hoping ...

Antibody, a neutralizing antibody, the peak following a second dose of a two-dose mrna, it's like at this level. if you look at the peak involving the third shot boost, it goes way up here. people ask, why is that important? because our experience with variants such as the delta variant is that even though the vaccine isn't specifically targeted to the delta variant, when you get a high enough level of an immune response, you get spillover protection, even against the variant that the vaccine wasn't specifically directed at. and that's the reason why we feel, even though we don't have a lot of...

Antib antibody, peak following the second dose of a two-dose mrna, it's like at this level. if you look at the peak following the third shot boost, it goes way up here and people ask, why is that important? because our experience with variants such as the delta variant is that even though the vaccine isn't specifically targeted to the delta variant, when you get a high enough level of an immune response, you get spillover protection even against a variant that the vaccine wasn't specifically directed at and that's the reason why we feel even though we don't have a lot of data on it, there's ev...

You want to make sure you're fully vaccinated and you get that booster shot right now to protect you, especially going into the holiday season, from the delta variant, which we know is dominant here, this omicron variant which we know is here now and could possibly be more extensive as time goes on, you want that protection now, that means getting your booster shot now, not waiting for something that could possibly happen and if it does, it will happen sometime in 2022. it's going to take a few months, and you won't have protection during that time period, and that could be a dangerous time pe...