will cover the original vaccine and the newest variants, ba.4, ba.5, and how long from here? also tonight, dr. anthony fauci revealing he is stepping down from his role, having served seven presidents. what he might do next. cecilia vega in washington. the major airlines cutting thousands of flights in the u.s. this fall. what s driving this? the horrific crash killing several college students including two freshmen members of the college football team. and tonight here, jupiter as you ve never seen it before. the new images coming in from nasa. good evening and it s great to start another week with all of you at home. we do have that breaking news involving former president trump and the three officers suspended after that disturbing video in a separate case. but we do begin tonight with the historic and devastating flooding in dallas and we have just learned it has turned
recommended to receive a booster you shouldn t wait, you should get your booster now and you should also wait to see whether or not there are clear data that this is going to be better. it certainly should be better, ba.4, ba.5 are the circulating strains, we know starting with omicron and now these omicron subvariants they are immune evasive for protection against mild illness, you are better protected against mild illness if you get a ba.4, ba.5 vaccine but you need to prove it before you launch that kind of program and right now we re waiting for that proof. how do you make sure you re in good shape? just anyone, whether it is someone who is pretty healthy or someone who does have underlying considerations, some underlying conditions. what do you say to them? the goal of the vaccine is to protect against severe disease. as of right now all the evidence is that three doses of vaccine will protect you against severe disease but there are those high risk groups who likely will bene
Antibodies are less effective in protecting people from the stronger, now-dominant BA.5 sub-variant of Covid-19, according to the Department of Medical Sciences.
frequently, people will develop symptoms and test negative for a couple of days with the antigen test. we know that kevin o connor, dr. o connor confirmed it with a pcr test. but likely he was infected earlier in the week or even this past weekend. what is your reaction to hear thing news of the president testing positive? to be honest, i m not hugely surprised. we know that the newest omicron variants, ba-4 and ba-5 are transm transmissible, able to evade our natural immune system s response, whether induced by vaccines or prior infection. and joe biden has been out and
either vaccines or previous infection that we all have a certain level of susceptible, and so everyone needs to be cautious at this point. we ve spoken so much in the past about herd immunity. under what circumstances are we going to get to that point of seeing soaring hospitalization rates once more? how is this current variant of omicron different to the previous variants? well, the new variants that we re seeing, ba.4, ba.5, they do evade the immune response much more. what happens is you ll see people getting not only infected but potentially sicker than they have been in the past. so, while vaccines and previous infection will likely reduce the probability of severe disease, hospitalization and death, you might have an infection that could be serious. and that s why we are seeing