<p>About eight out of 10 people who have caught the Omicron variant of COVID-19 were fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).</p>
<p>Just 20% of COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant, based on an examination of diagnoses from December 1-8. There were 43 cases attributed to Omicron; 34 were among people who had been “fully vaccinated.” What&#8217;s more, one-third of the 34 had also received a third &#8220;booster&#8221; shot. Just one of those suffering from Omicron was briefly hospitalized.</p>
<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who serves as President Joe Biden&#8217;s chief medical adviser on COVID-19, now says &#8220;the early data indicates that Omicron may not pose as great a risk of serious illness as the Delta variant, but stressed that further information is needed before he can definitively confirm that,&#8221; the Mail reported.</p>
<p>Fauci said federal officials are &#8220;continuing to evaluate&#8221; whether to urge Americans to get a booster shot to be considered fully vaccinated for COVID-19. &#8220;For official requirements, it&#8217;s still two shots of the mRNA and one shot of the J&amp;J for the official determination of what&#8217;s required or not,&#8221; Fauci told ABC News on Sunday.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8220;But I think if you look at the data, the more and more it becomes clear that if you want to be optimally protected you really should get a booster,&#8221; Fauci added.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;ll be continuing to evaluate what the official designation is&#8221; to be considered fully vaccinated, he said.</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Asked whether further annual boosters will be needed, Fauci said it was &#8220;tough to tell.&#8221;</p>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8220;If it becomes necessary to get yet another boost, then we&#8217;ll just have to deal with it when that occurs,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Last Wednesday, Pfizer-BioNTech reported that initial results from studies examining how well their vaccine protects against a new coronavirus variant found that a booster shot &#8212; on top of a two-dose vaccine regimen &#8212; neutralizes Omicron in lab studies.</p>
<p>The pharmaceutical company said that just two shots showed decreased protection in studies, but a booster dose significantly raises protection.</p>
<p>&#8220;According to the companies’ preliminary data, a third dose provides a similar level of neutralizing antibodies to Omicron as is observed after two doses against wild-type and other variants that emerged before Omicron,&#8221; they said in a press <a href="https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/pfizer-and-biontech-provide-update-omicron-variant">release</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;These antibody levels are associated with high efficacy against both the wild-type virus and these variants. A third dose also strongly increases CD8<sup>+</sup> T cell levels against multiple spike protein epitopes, which are considered to correlate with the protection against severe disease. Compared to the wild-type virus, the vast majority of these epitopes remain unchanged in the Omicron spike variant,&#8221; the release said.</p>
<p>In plain English, blood samples from people who have had a booster showed &#8220;25-fold higher levels of neutralizing antibodies against Omicron compared to blood serum from people immunized with just two doses,&#8221; Time magazine <a href="https://time.com/6126612/omicron-pfizer-booster/">reported</a>. &#8220;Essentially, the booster brought levels of these virus-fighting antibodies back to those seen after two doses against the original virus strain. More durable immune responses involving T cells were also higher against Omicron after a booster dose.&#8221;</p>
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