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Being driven by different sensitivity to the vaccine protection or prior infection. the mix of contributors is not known. the bottom line this is what we know, the majors that we take to protect ourselves in the spread of covid including wearing masks in indoor space and well ventilated spaces those work and will work against omicron. also vaccines, were trying to figure out the vaccines against omicron. every case they're better off and were protected against hospitalization and death in the unvaccinated. were urging people to get vaccinated and boosted. chris: briefly on this you talk about ...

Common cold. compared to a week ago when we first learned the name omicron, how much more how we learned about the transmissibility about this disease. the severity of the disease from omicron and the potential that it could invade and beat the vaccines that we now have. >> we continue to learn a lot about omicron we have seen there is spread around the world and in our country, we see this with other variants prude we've been in close dialogue with her colleagues in south africa and frequent basis to understand what they're seen. even though they're seen cases go up they see an increase in ho...

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Chris: welcome back to the reagan national defense forum. now the latest on the developing story. the highly mutated covid very omicron has now been detected in 44 countries and spread to 16 states here in the u.s. health officials are racing to learn more about the new variant. were also dealing with another surge of the delta virus. joining is now u.s. surgeon general vivek murthy. doctor, it's been a little bit more than a week since the world first learned about the omicron variant. i would go over some of the initial findings so far. the variant is spreading more than twice as fast as del...

>> what we've been seen since the summertime if you vaccinated unvaccinated and gathering with people outside of your household in indoor spaces, wearing a mask is a recommended step to take. to reduce the potential for spread and protects you and protects the people around you. chris: i know you're a scientist and you want to play this very carefully. people are following this awfully closely. let me ask you this. i hope you can give us some transparency. what you learned so far as compared to a week ago. are you more or less worried about omicron? >> i certainly am concerned about the possib...