so the question is, will the antibodies generated by the vaccines that we have all had or should have had will that enable us to be protected against this virus? i think there's good reasons to think it will probably be okay but we need to know the real answers to that and that's going to take two or three weeks. >> that's good to know that you think we probably would be okay. in a statement on friday in moderna said "the combination of mutations represents a significant potential risk to accelerate the waning of natural and vaccine-increased immunity. can you explain what that means and is it possible the omicron variant is what scientists like you call an escape variant? >> it's possible, but again, based on what we've learned so far with alpha, beta, gamma and delta, the vac teens which are generated against the original virus hill work and the boosters work particularly well. this san important point, where people are listening who haven't