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>> important 20 put all those caveats and cautions even as we look at the cautious optimism. i want to pivot to a new report. this may be on the other side of the equation. researchers reporting a traveler isolated for covid-19 at a facility in new zealand managed to infect, get this, three other people across a hallway. now, this is the other fascinating point. one person out of these four escaped infection, and that was the one person who was vaccinated. here's the deal. closed-circuit camera footage, genetic testing, careful contact tracing shows the only way the virus could have passed one...

Mutations, 30 of them being in a key protein that we study and use to vaccinate against, which is the spike protein which sits on the virus surface. this spike protein engages our receptors and gains entry into our cells. it is also the target of the response following vaccination against natural infection so it really is a critical part of the virus and we are seeing a large number of changes occurring in this new variant. and of course now the race is on to try and find outjust how contagious it might be. how long will that take and whether or not it stands up to the vaccines that we have? i...