Regina bessette mccain, medical director at baylor college of medicine. thank you for your time. i want to put out the data elizabeth shared from pfizer. two doses maybe not, you might still get a breakthrough infection. three doses pfizer says should protect you against omicron. as we are trying to learn about the new variant, what does this tell you, and does it leave any big questions that you still think need to be answered? absolutely, john, there are still a lot of questions that need to be answered. we have to remember that these are still preliminary reports and preliminary data. omicron was just discovered a little under two weeks ago. so scientists and researchers are really putting the pedal to the metal in order to figure out how omicron is going to work. but they need collect more data. it does look like our current vaccines will protect against severe disease, and that ultimately is our goal. it s to keep americans from dying and to keep people out of the hospital. so
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