is a fireball offense. if you didn t prepare the president and tell him what was needed for a possible outbreak with the new variant, you deserve to be fired from your job and yet they are still sitting here saying you are the ones americans that should cancel thanksgiving and christmas. you are the ones that should tell the unvaccinated they are not welcome in your house instead of taking any responsibility for this. kayleigh: to that end to come biden s own cdc director said we knew things like this could happen. not only that, but trumps former cdc director robert redfield said this in august. i m going to predict that within two, three, four months we will have another variant and that marriott will be more infectious than the delta variant. kayleigh: so leslie, how can biden say no one saw this coming? leslie: scientists and medical professionals know how fluid this is and know that any virus, covid or otherwise, it mutates. but of course they don t have crystal balls.
anticipate variants. i know you have a baseline, if you re not a doctor a baseline understanding of variants and all that sort of thing but basically we re a mutation. i don t know what she was studying. exactly, harris. that s brilliant. what s going on if countries like africa is they aren t vaccinating people and people have h.i.v. and if you got covid it percolates for a while and mutates inside a person and where we think omicron actually came from. so if you have whole areas spreading covid and not following it and they aren t vaccinated you will see more and more variants emerging. the one positive to say is omicron is so contagious it looks like it has crowded out other variants. and we ll end up with we may see a swath of immunity but certainly getting there the hard way. i wish more and more people were vaccinated, boosted, plus
any other country on that front. but if we want to live with it, listening to dr. fauci, he s just telling history. we were able to live with polio and smallpox. people went out, and they got vaccinated. you know, i agree, we need to do everything we can do to have a return to normalcy. hopefully omicron breaks soon. i think it is breaking soon, and we can move that direction. but, elise jordan, i don t really exactly know how to respond to some of my friends when they write me emails and are angry about a new variant. oh, so now they re telling us there s this thing called omicron, acting as if it s the federal government who is responsible for a virus that moves across the world, goes to different countries, mutates. it s only been doing it, what, for millions of years? suddenly, i m supposed to say, well, this is not joe biden s fault that a virus is mutating, and i m very sorry you feel that
back of similar research on other viruses, influenza, hiv. we ve been working on an hiv vaccine now for almost 30 years here at duke. hiv is one of the most rapidly evolving life forms on earth. that s because hiv mutates much faster, and that s one reason why dr. barton haines thinks developing a universal vaccine for coronaviruses may be easier. developing that platform for hiv over the last five years allowed this to happen when the need arose very quickly. the most challenging part is that the virus is always changing. how do you predict what s coming in the future so that your vaccine can be effective against it? and he s not just talking about coronaviruses that are infecting humans right now, but also novel ones that could still spill over from animals. ones we don t even know about yet. that s the type of vaccines we re going to need in order to prevent the next pandemic. jake, it s just really
at duke. hiv is one of the most rapidly evolving life forms on earth. that s because hiv mutates much faster, and that s one reason why dr. barton haines thinks developing a universal vaccine for coronaviruses may be easier. developing that platform for hiv over the last five years allowed this to happen when the need arose very quickly. the most challenging part is that the virus is always changing. how do you predict what s coming in the future so that your vaccine can be effective against it. and he s not just talking about coronaviruses that are infecting humans right now, but also novel ones that could still spill over from animals, ones we don t even know about yet. that s the type of vaccines we re going to need in order to prevent the next pandemic. i ve got to tell you, erin, it is absolutely fascinating science. they re using computational modeling to try and figure out what are these conserved sites on these viruses, what do they basically all have in common.