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president is very much focused on the omicron variant to the extent that the administration put out a statement even before he left nantucket on his thanksgiving weekend saying he was going to have this meeting, and now it has occurred. also i think important to say, jim, that we are now in the countdown period before those travel restrictions on several southern african countries, including south africa, as well as botswana. we are in that countdown period before we actually see those travel restrictions go into effect. the question, of course, for the president, which he did not answer today, is whether he s going to expand any of those restrictions in light of what the scientists have learned over the last weekend. jim, back to you. and of course we know there are cases popping up all over the globe, not just in that part of africa. joe johns, thank you very much. the world is racing to contain this new variant with multiple countries blocking and
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thanks so much. how are you feeling about all of this? we just learned omicron is in canada. it s on our doorstep. i suppose, as dr. fauci was saying and others have been saying, it s almost certainly here. jim, i think the major takeaway, what your viewers should go home thinking about, is that there s still much we do not know about omicron. we re still learning. and i think that as we were saying very early in the pandemic, pandemics are not about panicking, they re about policies, protocols, and practice. and in this case that means doing the work of characterizing the virus. scientists are hard at work trying to figure out how well our current vaccines will protect against the omicron variant. it also means trying to figure out how infectious this variant is. if it is not as infectious as the delta variant, so you can think of it sort of as a foot race if the delta variant s a lot faster, then omicron, delta may still outpace, outgun
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feeling any symptoms in the next few days. reporter: back here in atlanta, it is very much so business as usual for delta airlines, the hometown airline here for atlanta. they re continuing flights to south africa despite this travel restriction going into effect on monday. and, jim, the passengers that we ve spoken to here, for the most part, are actually kind of flippant when it comes to news about omicron, saying it did not factor in at all as to whether or not they would travel today. there is only one person who said they have some kind of trepidation and anxiety moving forward and is uncertain about what this all means. but we are pretty surprised to hear here from passengers saying that really this news isn t going to impact them at all going forward. jim? all right, nick, we ll see if that remains the vibe over at the airport. nada, let me go to you in london. we should note we just learned the first two cases of the omicron variant have been
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