Omicron could diminish vaccine immunity. It may diminish the natural immunity that people get who have been nationally infected and made their own ambies. And it might diminish many of the monoconambody treatments. People are scaredno, and there's, but you don't know yet. There's reason to be scared, but we don't know the full impact of this at this point. We're prepared in that we've already put into clinical trials new anabodies that we think well be able to still be effective, even in the fit of omicron. So unfortunately, many of us think that this is going to be a long game, a long challenge.
What is the Omicron Variant? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discuss the emergence of the new Omicron Variant of COVID-19 with biomedical scientist and president of Regeneron, George Yancopoulos.
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