{"id":1061659,"date":"2021-11-28T11:13:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T16:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1061659"},"modified":"2021-11-28T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T16:13:35","slug":"nih-dir-collins-omicron-variant-a-great-reason-to-go-and-get-boosted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nih-dir-collins-omicron-variant-a-great-reason-to-go-and-get-boosted\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH Dir. Collins: Omicron Variant a &#039;Great Reason to Go and Get Boosted\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnih-dir-collins-omicron-variant-a-great-reason-to-go-and-get-boosted%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1061659&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Francis-Collins-640x335-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins said the new Omicron&nbsp;variant of COVID-19 was a \u201cgreat reason\u201d for people in the United States to get their booster shot.<\/p>\n<p>Collins said, \u201cThe booster basically enlarges the capacity of your immune system to recognize all kinds of different spike&nbsp;proteins it\u2019s never seen. This is a great day to go and get boosted or find out how to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>He continued, \u201cYes, we worry that is the worst case you might have a virus that is so different that the vaccines really don\u2019t enable you to have protection. That is the kind of thing we need to check out as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Collins added, \u201cWe\u2019ll get some sense of that already from what\u2019s happening in South Africa because about 37% of South Africans are vaccinated. We should be able to find out in the next two or three weeks if the protection that they\u2019re having somewhat better than the unvaccinated people? That data is going to start to emerge, and we\u2019ll be able to work in the laboratory and ask if you took serum from somebody who has been vaccinated, does it actually neutralize that virus in the lab? That will take also another two or three weeks, so stay tuned. We\u2019re going to get better information about this. There\u2019s no reason to panic but a great reason to get boosted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Pam Key on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pamkeyNEN\">@pamkeyNEN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins said the new Omicron\u00a0variant of COVID-19 was a \u201cgreat reason\u201d for people in the United States to get their booster shot. 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