With at least 16 states now reporting cases of the Omicron variant have been detected, there’s still much more we don’t know about the spread of the latest COVID-19 strain.
So what does this mean for families and the fight against COVID-19? Here’s what Dr. Richard Besser, former acting CDC director and president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, told “Face the Nation.”
The first cases of the Omicron variant have been detected in the United States. How concerned should we be about this variant and do we know whether vaccines will work against it?
It is important to take the emergence of this new strain seriously until we know more about it. What we don’t know about Omicron right now far exceeds what we do know, but what we’ve learned so far is cause for concern. Omicron has more than 50 mutations. Many of them are in the spike protein region of the virus, which is the area targeted by our current vaccines and some of our treatments. That raises the…
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