one drug company in particular seems to be working on a vaccine for that specific variant bore buying interest today. meantime, daylight crime that is a rampage around the country and what is being done to stop it once and for all. this is the sound of nature breathing. and this is the sound of better breathing. fasenra is a different kind of asthma medication. it s not a steroid or inhaler. fasenra is an add-on treatment for asthma driven by eosinophils. it s one maintenance dose every 8 weeks. it helps prevent asthma attacks, improve breathing, and lower use of oral steroids. nearly 7 out of 10 adults with asthma may have elevated eosinophils. fasenra is designed to target and remove them. fasenra is not a rescue medication
that ran under covid-19. neil: why now is the only question. thanks, mercedes. meantime, back to omicron. the variant that has everyone worried. what we discovered is it is indeed very contagious. here s why stocks were racing today. it s been deemed not remotely dangerous. are they right? after this. [uplifting music playing] i had a dream that someday i would just fly, fly away
omicron developments instead proving that vaccines don t work. they say the hell with it. what do you say? it proves the opposite. vaccines do work. instead of everybody dying from a new variant, we re seeing we have some immunity to it. vaccines aren t there to make sure that nobody gets sick at all. vaccines are there to prevent severe illness and debilitation. they re doing their job and doing it quite well. neil: doctor, great catching up with use. we ll see you abreast if other countries besides norway take more aggressive moves. right now it s limited to a couple of countries doing that sort of thing. meantime, the president s push to get somethingist history that he really wants but increasingly
serving any liquor after midnight. again, the deal with this spike in cases. that seems tame. but may be a sign of things to come with omicron if it gets out of hand. so far the new variant doesn t seem to be worldwide the problem some feared it would. it s contagious but as for whether it s dangerous, not so much. that s the early read. to dr. kevin campbell. doctor, what to you make of what norway is doing right now, not as sweeping as the measures like austria is taking but taking them nevertheless. i think they re responding to a spike in cases which is different with regards to new york city. i think they re assessing the situation, responding to it and that s what we have to do on the local level. making sweeping mandates is the wrong way to approach this virus. neil: with omicron, that s