transmissible and it might invade some of the protection of monoclonal antibodies and convalescent plasma and even antibodies induced by vaccines. raymond: given that there is no extensive testing on this variant and the south african say it presents only mild symptoms, what is dr. fauci talking about? tyrus: i establish yesterday i m not a rocket surgeon. i do a lot of reading and research and whatnot and i found looking historically with other different type of variant. which is typical of the flu mutating variant and they typically tend to be less serious than the original. it just goes back pushing the worst case scenario. i think with messaging you could look at that one way or another. the part that is disturbing he is no longer the science guy, just a fax guy he had to take time out with senator cruz in