perpetuity because it s very clear to me that this omicron variant came from an animal reservoir. it s unlikely it came from a human because in order to have that many notations, 32 in the spike protein, it must have lived in animal reservoir s for a long time. one study showed 30% of dear had in the united states, had the coronavirus so it does live in animal reservoirs so we are going to need to get ready for a new variant every year and we should be encompassing with the immunity, hopefully we won t have white house press conferences every time we have a new influenza variant coming to the united states annually. [laughter] paul: all right, thanks. when we come back, their ministration scrambles to head off the winter search in public cases, could more mandates and restrictions becoming?
and since we are not going to be able to avoid the virus, somebody is going to contracted eventually, it seems like we are ignoring all the data, things we can do to improve an immune system besides a vaccine anded focusing only on that and trying to avoid virus, which isn t avoidable. tucker: i mean, our whole response seems predicated on the belief that we can avoid it, that you can hide from it forever. you arere saying that we can t. well, this virus, like every other respiratory virus, has animal reservoirs and in all the history of medicine we ve only eradicated one virus, and that was smallpox, which had no animal reservoirs, it only affected humans. because some of those animals are actually domestic animals, there is just no way to escape the virus. this is why we can t escape influenza or the common cold. the focus in this manifested in his mind after reading all the literature is since it doesn t appear we have very good steps we can take that evener do anything in viral
able to avoid the virus, somebody is going to contracted eventually, it seems like we are ignoring all the data, things we can do to improve an immune system besides a vaccine and focusing only on that and trying to avoid virus, which isn t avoidable. tucker: i mean, our whole response seems predicated on the belief that we can avoid it, that you can hide from it forever. you are saying that we can t. well, this virus, like every other respiratory virus, has animal reservoirs and in all the history of medicine we ve only eradicated one virus, and that was smallpox, which had no animal reservoirs, it only affected humans. because some of those animals are actually domestic animals, there is just no way to escape the virus. this is why we can t escape influenza or the common cold. the focus in this manifested in his mind after reading all the literature is since it doesn t appear we have very good steps we can take that even do anything in viral avoidance in most circumstances, certa