cancellations. and if you add the cancelations from yesterday and today, we re at more than 1100. right now there are about 550 cancellations today alone. 2200 flights delayed. and as you know, when one flight is delayed or canceled, it has this ripple effect, this domino effect not just here in atlanta but across the world because of how important and how busy this parent is. but we spoke with one young travel who are was so wise. his parents told me you want to interview him because he knows exactly what to do to get through the airport safely and early. take a listin. we left at around 4:00 and got here at 5:00. and yeah, the lines are longer than they usually are. i think that is good to leave early and so you could make sure you have everything and be prepared. reporter: leave early and be prepared. words of wisdom coming from a 13-year-old kid who is on his way to a family vacation. i spoke with the woman on her way to belize to be with her in-laws for a tropical
contact. is that still the case? really what this is about is contact tracing and identifying those that are at highest risk for high risk exposure. so we know that people in close proximity for a long duration of time will have a higher risk of acquiring covid. so for the sake of contract tracing we identify people that should quarantine because they had a high risk exposure. but it seems very finite and absolute and there is no invisible wall at six feet and 15 minutes where the disease was suddenly totally goes away. so we need to explain this as a risk. that being the highest risk, but if you re still in the same room as another person for 14 minutes, and 7 feet, it could still be risky. right. so jessica, now i m going to you. two doses equally fully vaccinated. does that still hold? yeah, again, there is a lot of knew aps that is missing here and what fully vaccinated
changed in that area. we anticipate that the drug will be quite effective against omicron. but ongoing work will tell us for sure. that s really interesting. on transmission, does it help limit or stop transmission of the virus? well, we re going to be looking at that. we have a clinical trial going on right now. people who have been exposed to covid but haven t gotten covid yet. we will see if their risk of acquiring covid. we hope it will be an additional benefit of the drug. when will this be available if the fda follows the recommendation of the panel? fda and merck are working closely to finish all the technicalities and all the important things that need to be done before a drug is being used. we hope it will be in a relatively short period of time. ultimately, that s up to the fda. all right. dr. barr, thank you so much for being with us to talk about this