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The number of countries detecting the coronavirus variant is increasing every day. but the w—h—o also says it's too soon to know if omicron causes a more serious illness — and people shouldn't panic. the surge in south africa, where the variant was first identified, has accelerated further. there were more than 16,000 new cases announced on friday — up from 11,500 the day before. doctors say there's a higher rate of admissions of young children. and after germany announced new restrictions for the unvaccinated on thursday, the republic of ireland has announced limits on the size of att...

Than the other regimen that they're now suggesting. >> what do you make of the president's overall demeanor on how people -- he said we should be concerned but we shouldn't panic. when you look at the cases, seems like we're seeing the same kind of regime that we've seen with the past variants, which is that vaccinated people seem to fare better. we know people that are very overweight don't fare as well. is he focusing on the right things? >> well, we're still very early with omicron. what we know is the mutations on this virus are very concern. they're widespread in all the places that we do...

Molly. molly: for more on the omicron variant, let's bring in dr. janette nesheiwat, family and emergency medicine doctor. dr. nesheiwat, this is clearly something that the lawmakers are concerned about, the public health officials are very concerned about, countries concerned about. we restricted travel as have a number of nations in the united kingdom. so how concerned should americans be as we head into this holiday season? >> so this new variant, the omicron variant, it is a variant of concern, but we shouldn't panic. it's just important to be the aware of what this variant could potential...

How concerned are are you? >> i am concerned. we shouldn't panic or worry. we should be prepared and protect ourselves. the best way to do that is getting your vaccine. we know this new variant has multiple mutations that might make it easier to gain access to our cells and make us sick. we're still waiting on more data to determine will it evade the vaccine, will it evade the current treatments that we have. but we need to take precautions and protect ourselves by getting vaccinated and practicing common sense measures. >> the timing of this is tough. this is when millions of americans love f...

Omicron variant, how concerned are you? >> i am concerned but we we shouldn't panic, we shouldn't worry, we just need to be prepared and protect ourselves and the best way we can do that is of course getting your vaccine. what we know so far is this new variant has multiple mutations which might make it easier to gain access into ourselves and make us sick. we still need more data to determine if it will invade the vaccine or the current treatments we have been instilled in me to take precautions and protect ourselves by getting vaccinated and practicing common sense measures. >> the timing of...