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Fauci and others talking about the need for better testing. dr. fauci saying we need to flood the country with tests. right now the testing is not great in all parts of the country. >> the reason it's not clear about omicron, is that because they weren't testing against omicron when they started to do these trials? >> reporter: right. of course. when they did the clinical trials back in 2020, omicron didn't exist. delta didn't exist. they were testing it against the original form of coronavirus. sometimes called the wild type. people didn't even know omicron was around. so that is part of the ...

Compares to that which we don't know? >> yeah, alex, the uk report actually adds a lot of concern. one is that they show this is definitely a much more transmissible variant. you're seeing the numbers increase rapidly in the uk. they think it might be the predominant variant there in the next couple weeks. not only that, but when they looked at household contact, when you're in a family that has an omicron infection, you are three times more likely to get infected. much more transmissible. we're also learning about the fact it can reduce protection against infection, so the boosters become so ...

Detected in 21 states. cnn's alexander field is covering the latest pandemic develo developments. >> to be protected of omicron, you really need a three-dose series of vaccination. and that's how we should look at it right now. the three-dose is what you need. >> reporter: early data from pfizer delivers promising news on the efficacy of its vaccine against the omicron variant. >> three doses against omicron are almost equivalent to the two-dose effectiveness we had against the wild type, the original variant. >> reporter: the company saying just two doses may still provide protection against ...

A new study supports the hypothesis that heterologous vaccination can provide an increased immune response against virus infection, supporting several other studies that have indicated similar events.

Need to know is whether our testing regime still makes sense. is there any difference in -- but we'll also need to know very basically, and i think that's part of what i think freaked a lot of people out -- certainly freaked me out reading the reports from the w.h.o. this weekend was the prospect that if it's not this variant or one of the variant in the future, is one of these variant going to be something that you get worse symptoms, you're more likely to get very sick, you're more likely to get killed by one of these things. it seems we don't know whether or not this variant has that kind o...