Omicron

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

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Andy breaks down everything you need to know about the Omicron variant with epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina. They cover what we know about Omicron's transmissibility, the severity of illness it causes, and how it impacts immunity – whether from vaccination or prior infection. They discuss why Omicron worries scientists, how quickly the mRNA vaccines could be tailored to fight Omicron if needed, and what the emergence of this new variant says about global vaccine equity.

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Get the latest Omicron news here: https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/omicron-covid-19-variant-11-30-21/index.html
Here is President Biden’s full address about Omicron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTzOB11JIw8
Watch Andy discuss the Omicron variant on MSNBC: https://www.msnbc.com/stephanie-ruhle/watch/slavitt-says-he-has-spoken-with-white-house-about-omicron-variant-127525445736
Check out Katelyn’s posts at her Your Local Epidemiologist Substack: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/
Read the WHO’s update on Omicron that Katelyn mentions in today’s episode: https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2021-update-on-omicron
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0:49.2	Levanada. This variant is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic. We have the
0:59.8	best vaccine in the world, the best medicines, the best scientist, and we're
1:05.0	learning more every single day. And we'll fight this variant with scientific
1:10.1	and knowledgeable actions and speed, not chaos and confusion. We have more
1:17.3	tools today to fight the variant than we've ever had before. From vaccines to
1:22.1	boosters to vaccines for children, five years and older, and much more. A year
1:27.8	ago America was floundering against the first variant of COVID. We beat that
1:33.1	variant significantly, and then we got hit by a far more powerful threat, the
1:37.7	Delta variant. But we took action. And now we're seeing deaths from Delta come
1:42.6	down. We'll fight the, and look, we're going to fight and beat this new variant
1:48.0	as well. We're learning more about this new variant every single day. And as we
1:53.1	learn more, we're going to share that information with American people
1:56.1	candidly and promptly. Welcome to the bubble. This is your host Andy Slavitt. That, of
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