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We are concerned that the new variant may pose substantial risk to public health. >> belgium confirmed it identified one case of the new strain which feared to be more transmissable than the delta variant. >> austrians have been told to stay home and only go out for essential reasons. >> hard. angry. all things. that is what is going on over there. we know it is a global pandemic, but it can be easy to focus just on our community or neighborhood or country, and yet the nature of this provides information and even guidance for us by looking at what is abroad particularly. as i emphasized some...

They've taken themselves out of the cue for the next delivery of vaccines. and by doing that, they're allowing many of the countries have been able to purchase the vaccines. we need to see more of that commitment. this needs to be a global wakeup call that we do not, any of us return to normalcy as just mentioned, until we have global vaccine equity. >> let's back up when it comes to omicron. let's talk about what we do and don't know. we don't know if it's more transmisable. we don't know if it does anything to evade vaccines. we don't know if omicron makes you more sick if you get it. right?...

Africa but we don't know answers. it's something to take seriously to track and understand but it's not a cause for panic. we have a lot of tools. we have a full tool books of things to deal with this variant. >> martha: knowing what we know about how viruses evolve, does it make sense it would be milder but more easily transmissable? >> in general some will be less severe in an effort to become more transmissable. if you're a virus is not severe, you will go about and infect other people. so sometimes there's that kind of a trade-off. many of the coronaviruses we deal with probably went throu...

And what they got for it is a restriction that is doing to harm them economically. how much time will be needed because i have read anywhere from a new days to a few weeks before there's a real assessment. right now they're saying that maybe it's more transmissable but certainly the symptoms, the illness has been relatively mild. >> so that's correct. those are some anecdotal reports coming out. again, this is not based on any significant or large amount of data. that's what we're hearing in terms of being more transmissable than delta because of the amount of mutations that it has. we're also...

States. >> you would predict from looking at the mutations that have been identified that it likely will be more transmissable. we don't know that yet but you have to be careful and assume that's the case. >> do you believe that omicron is already here in the u.s., likely? >> you know, i would not be surprised if it is. >> reporter: while health officials are trying to learn more about omicron. the white house and president biden have been stressing the importance of vaccinations and booster shots. that's how this administration insist americans will be able to protect themselves against the c...