fauci also stressing he believes existing vaccines are likely to provide a degree of protection against severe cases. the administration promising another update on the u.s. s response on monday. also on monday, new travel restrictions for eight southern african countries set to go into effect. joining me now to discuss what we do and don t know about omicron, dr. kavita patel, a physician and former obama white house policy director, also an msnbc medical contributor. dr. patel, it s great to see you again. thanks for answering so many of our questions about this. i just read part of what came out of that meeting at the white house today. do we know anything, you know, for certain about the transmissibility and severity of this new variant based on the details coming out of south africa so far? yeah, ayman, it s important to stress the details are all kind of fast and furious and somewhat anecdotal. we do know it s more transmissible, possibly more transmissible than delta. remember
let me ask you about something i alluded to at the top of this show and that is the big question around joe biden will run again and how that actually impacts things at the white house if he is running again. but i m cures you to get your thoughts on the impact of him running good. ranging from bernie sanders to never trumpers like john kasich from ohio. is there enough material to stretch the tent without breaking it, especially if biden is part of the picture in 20234. so as of today, do we have a sense of the answers to the questions that you are posing? yeah, so ayman, we don t have an absolute question to president biden. he said he is planning to run for reelection. there s a lot of wiggle room in that term planning to run. and to me, this does kind of
is one to be applauded because they really were transparent and very forward-facing, even though it s been penalized across the world for travelers to and from that country. but what they re doing right now is kind of mocking up an exact copy of that omicron virus, and then they re putting that in petri dishes and combining that with blood from people who have been fully immunized and don t have any chronic conditions or other issues and trying to see how much of that person s blood s antibodies neutralize this new variant. and from that data, we will know, and that s what takes a couple weeks, ayman, we will know do the antibodies that we produce from our vaccines and boosters cover enough to protect us against this virus. that s critical data. and as dr. fauci mentioned, that data will probably show there is a level of protection against severe death and hospitalization. but we ve had a degree of luck with our vaccines that we could love to know if being update on our boosters can gi
locks to unlock that key. the critical question is, do these variants change the way their key looks enough that our locks don t fit. it s highly unlikely it s zero, but it could reduce our effectiveness from 94%, ayman, to maybe 60 to 65%. that s what we re going to learn in the next couple of weeks. so get your booster today. don t wait for something because it could be several months, ayman, to have a tailored vaccine and enough manufacturing and all the different authorities and approvals to see the actual shots in our arms. let s talk a little bit about what is happening right now on the ground in some of these countries in southern africa. the travel ban, including eight countries, including south africa, but mostly southern african countries, goes into effect tomorrow. however, as i ve mentioned, new cases of omicron are popping up in countries not on that list. you just had, in the last hour, canada announcing they have two cases that have been detected. you worked in the whi
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