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United States, there has been a warning that a corona pandemic could come from next month as the Omicron mutation overlaps with the flu. Still, the good news is that there is an official announcement that booster vaccination is effective in preventing omicron mutation. There has even been a prospect that there is no need for a new vaccine tailored to the omicron mutation. 



Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung from Washington.



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number of infected with Omicron, which was only a small number, has already been counted to account for 3% of all corona infections in the United States.



In particular, New York and New Jersey accounted for 13% of the total.



[Rochelle Wallensky / Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Analyzing the initial data, omicron was more contagious than delta mutation. It's doubling every two days.]



White House Chief Medical Adviser Anthony Fauci announced that, as a result of examining South African cases, the effectiveness of Omicron's prevention dropped from 80% to 33% when only two doses of the corona vaccine were administered.



However, when the third booster dose was given, the effectiveness of the vaccine was increased to 75%.



[Anthony porch / White House Chief Medical Adviser: You need a booster to add even finished everything, the timing of the inoculation did not match the vaccine virus, especially fashionable five microns vaccination inoculation]



Indigo customized new because the original vaccine is still effective He said he didn't need a vaccine right now.



[Anthony Fauci / Chief Medical Officer of the White House: Our booster inoculation works for Omicron.

Mutation-specific boosters are not needed at this time.] The



European Center for Disease Control and Prevention also said that within the first two months of next year, Omicron is likely to become the dominant species in 30 countries including the European Union and neighboring countries.



The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has even issued a warning that the omicron mutation overlaps with the delta mutation and the flu, which could lead to a pandemic as early as next month.