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moderna vaccines show omicron significantly reduces antibody protection after just two doses. but a third dose restores high levels of antibodies. the white house covid team asked today how worried americans should be about omicron. if we didn t have these tools, i would be telling you to really, really be worried. but we have tools. so get vaccinated, get boosted. reporter: the omicron variant, detected in at least 36 states, now makes up about 3% of cases nationwide, and as much as 13% in new york, new jersey and washington state, where cases are doubling every day, pushing some people to get that shot. i m going to go ahead and get vaccinated. i think it s right, especially with the variant. reporter: the number of covid cases at cornell university now more than 900. many thought to be omicron, pushing that college and others, like princeton and nyu, to move final exams online. and even if omicron is not more severe, as early data suggests,

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