largely the unvaccinated who are getting severely sick from this, that s with delta which dominates here. omicron is coming. moderna has new data how the booster shot protects against it. what are you learning? so what we ve learned from moderna is that their booster that s out there, it does increase antibodies but it s unclear how effective those antibodies will be at protecting you against omicron. so let s take a look at what moderna put out this morning. the booster that s out there now, the one that anybody can go out to a pharmacy or wherever to get it is 50 micrograms. it boosted antibodies in lab tests that they did. however, 100 microgram booster got the antibodies up higher and the effectiveness of either dose against omicron is unclear how effective it is and unclear if it is effective how durable that efficacy would be. now, i want to give a bottom line here, which is that the booster did increase antibodies,
facilities already. dr. matthew, thank you for walking us through it. thanks, jim and merry christmas. merry christmas as well. israel, a country that has often been at the forefront of fighting this pandemic is adding the u.s., canada and eight other countries to a no fly list as it takes steps to head off the spread of the omicron variant. journalist elliott gotkin joins us live from jerusalem. what does this mean for the hundreds of thousands dual israeli-u.s. citizens? they can still come to israel. it just means when they present their israeli passport after that, they have to go into seven days of quarantine. the first of those days will be at a designated quarantine hotel and after they ve signed an agreement promising to have their movements tracked they can go to whichever address they re staying at for the remainder of their isolation period. they can still come to israel. it means they have to self-is late and the reason israel is adding the u.s. and all the
multiple tumimes a day. people are tired and sick of hearing this but if you are unvaccinated, you are open to a lot of negative consequences from covid, not only long covid but severe illness, death and being in the icu for weeks. if you are vaccinated and you are boosted, even if you get a breakthrough infection, jim, most of these infections are mild. i spoke to four patients over the weekend of different ages, all of them with breakthrough infections and boosted. they are recovering at home. people will listen to this and say but they re still getting infected. infection, jim, is very different from disease. so if you wear that vest as i ve said multiple times, your chance of really surviving and not developing consequences from covid even with omicron is significantly high. and we see it in the data. jason carroll had it in his