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the dominant variant. we ve seen that in south africa. we are seeing it in the uk. i m absolutely certain that is what we re going to be seeing here relatively soon. reporter: no need at this point for an omicron specific booster vaccine, says dr. fauci, but this variant is now the most complete escapee say researchers in a new preprint study although the vaccines are still highly effective at preventing severe disease or death. it is reassuring these infections seem less severe but that is really only true probably if you are a healthy person who has been immunized ideally with three shots. if we have enough of these infections which it looks like we are going to our health care system has again the potential to be really overwhelmed. reporter: those cdc advisers who just voted to say the mrna vaccine should be preferred over johnson & johnson spent hours going through studies that show
of protection. so what people should do is make sure they go out and get their booster and be ready for the omicron variant when it becomeses more common in the u.s. there s a new preprint study which means it hasn t been peer reviewed yet but that study finds people who got pfizer and then got j&j as a booster are producing a strong immune response. and maybe better protected against more severe disease. so what do you think hearing that is the best course of action? should people who haven t gotten their boosters yet intentionally mix the vaccines? yeah, it s a great question. we ve now got several studies on mixing and matching. i d make two key points. one is we often have this idea, that somehow one vaccine is better than another. j&j vaccines are absolutely terrific. and they are absolutely, i think, as good as the mrna vaccines moderna and pfizer. if you want to use it as a booster, great. second, most of the evidence suggests it probably doesn t matter which booster you get
so this so alex, this comes out of a very interesting study by a big data management group and ai group out of cambridge, massachusetts. i haven t heard a lot about them before this, but they put up a very interesting preprint where because of their database, they compared the omicron sequence to 5 million other coronavirus sequence, which includes all of the current covid variants that we know about, plus not many people realize this, but there are several coronaviruses even before this pandemic that were known to cause upper respiratory infections. they re a less common cause of the common cold, and when that was done, there was a unique signature sequence that was found from one of those upper respiratory coronavirus viruses, and so their hypothesis, which i think has some merit, is that perhaps an individual who got a
that preprint. and by the way, dr. fauci did talk to me about this multiple times in the past but never became part of public policy here. it is public positively in israel, in europe. if you recover from infection, you get six months before they would say you need a vaccine for that green pass. you re in the united states, we are not counting this. here s the point he made i want to emphasize which is natural immunity from infection plus one or two vaccine doses was stronger than the vaccine alone. it is not sake the vaccine doesn t work. two doses plus the booster after six months of an mrna vaccine is a substantial protection and will help against this new variant and other experts believe. but stronger protection if you actually got over covid. we don t want anyone to get covid. but if they did and get one or two go vaccines they are in better shape than if they were vaccinated alone. the study is very convincing and it goes with previous information that we had.