are good people, smart people, they can make their own decisions and don t need to be told by president biden that they are systemically evil and racist and backwards. it just isn t true. the democrat party have lost sight of who america is, what our history is and what our destiny is going to be in the american people is going to put up with it much longer. every time they get a chance to be heard at the ballot box there is a loud and clear we don t want this agenda, we want a different future for this country. laura: with pfizer s ceo now predicting fourth booster, might be time to start asking is this still about the science, the immunologist was part of a group that did some of the early research on the mrna vaccine is here with a warning for all of you. stay there. severity, using less or a lot less oral pain medicines. and improved quality of life.
our history is and what our destiny is going to be and i tell you what, the american people are going to put up with it for much longer. any time they have a chance to be heard at the battle box they say loud and clear, we don t want this agenda we want a different future for this country. laura: senator, thanks. great to see you. with pfizer ceo suggesting a fourth booster it is time to start asking if it s still about the science. you know the answer. the immunologist was part of the early research on the mrna vaccine is here with a warning for all of you. stay there. lisa here, has had many jobs. and all that experience has led her
because the cases are increasing in south africa. you are seeing clusters of cases where tons of people have become infected from a primary index person who has omicron. i would say, for the booster part, we are still waiting on that laboratory data. but the reason you see myself and many other infectious disease doctor s an immunologist say with more confidence that we are probably going to be protected against infection for severe diseases because no other variant today brian, has reduced complete, or completely reduced eradicated protection against severe disease. and that is why those vaccines are so important and the boosters from what we know now, these boosters are increasing, the antibodies. but more and more studies are coming out that they are giving you a more immune response that might be helpful particularly to a new threat from the variant. we won t know until those laboratory data come out from vaccination studies in the next week or so. you and i discussed just days a
in the united states where kids of that age are currently ineligible to be vaccinated. meanwhile, more new confirmed cases of omicron in the united states are being identified. so far, cases have been reported in 11 states. georgia, maryland, new jersey, pennsylvania, utah, all declared in the last day. others include california, colorado, hawaii, minnesota, nebraska and new york. overnight, louisiana department of health reported a probable case in that state. all this unfolds, the biggest question mark looms large, whether our current crop of vaccines and boosters can provide adequate defense and immunity. i m joined by rick bright, immunologist and serves as the senior vice president of pandemic prevention and response at the rockefeller foundation. you are my go-to when these things happen. when i started at the beginning of covid, things going around and we were not testing
world vaccinated soon enough. we ll continue seeing this until we put vaccine equity at the top of our list not just donating a few doses or even a billion doses but putting resources in place around the world to get doses into the arms and not on the tarmac to stop this virus from mutating and coming into new variants and spreading around the world. experts have been saying if the united states and other countries didn t do more to immunize the entire world this is what was going to happen and now we are seeing it happening. you are an immunologist and have built your career researching vaccines. from the little we do know about omicron do you think our current vaccines will be able to hold up against it? from what i would speculate, jake, as you said, we don t have a lot of data yet. but it is still the sars cov-2