today, we should be mourning, and our hearts should be with the families of black south africans thatere maimed and murdered. they say he should not be buried on african soil, that he should be put out in the water but not on african seas, and that is a sentiment shared by many families who still mourn today. their babies, their fathers and mothers, who have been buried as a result of what he did. >> many see him as the south african president who oversaw the transition to democracy. others say this is someone who was instrumental in segregationist apartheid. what does it say about south africa? does it say that the wounds of the past still remained there in the country? >> i think it is really important when we look at the life of an individual to see what should he have prioritized. we were more concerned about how to get out of the trap apartheid had placed all over us. many people had already lost their lives along the road we covered, but there was also a huge risk that if we did not manage the transition out of apartheid, we could also contribute to the deaths of millions of bla

the former south african president f. w to clerk has died. he was the country's last party era president. he shared the 1993 nobel peace prize with nelson mandela. they were con, reconciliation in south africa. he was 85. john hall looks back at his life. this was the moment when south africa's last white leader signaled the end of a pa, tate. i wish to put it plainly that the government has taken a firm decision to release them on de la unconditionally. i am serious in this speech to parliament, frederic villain, declared, call f w. as he was known stuff the world. he freed nelson mandela and promised equal rights that would lead to south africa the 1st fully democratic election. if we did not take the initiatives we do, i have no doubt in my mind that we would have reached a point that the majority of all the people in south africa would have taken hands with the total international community. and would have united behind one common goal, and that is to over so regime we avoid that. there's some on dela with the nelson mandela, a free man wi

what a wasted opportunity he had in terms of bringing white south africans along into creating over the equal and united south africa. >> its a good point that you make. it could have been a very valuable learning experience for people around the world, not just in south africa. we appreciate your time and insights. thank you. >> encouraging but far from enough. that is the u.n. secretary general assessment of what has been agreed to so far at cop 26 in glasgow, scotland. nation climate promises ring hollow while they continue to invest in oil, gas in -- oil, gas and coal. they are accelerating action on climate this decade. >> the united states and china are releasing a joint declaration that lays out how will limit warming on this planet. >> as the world's top polluters, they say that beijing and washington have a response ability to think big. climate is a common challenge faced by humanity and it will impact the well-being of future generations. it is becoming increasingly urgent and severe, to future ha challenge into a crisis. -- crisis into a challenge. >> both sides worried t

second main the that the mentioned not very on south african soil. he put in the not the african seat that she bought. the black family still do not know today remains of the children big brother the father and mother have been very result in w, mozilla. the fact that south africans remained divided by this legacy one who some people say that this is someone all over. so the transition to democracy other say no, this was, this was someone who was instrumental in the continuation of the segregationist system of apartheid. what does it tell about south africa? does it say anything about the fact that the wounds of the past still remain there in your country? i think is very important there. when we look at the life of a single individual who of yours, there was a very important position towards the end of his life to see what should he have prioritized in the closing years of our lives, live prisons were a mom concerned about how to get out of the trip that accommodated, placed one of us, many people had already lost their lives along the road. we trav

so that's what we're hearing from the south african president. of course, part of what he's talking about is the issue of south africa being effectively shut off. and other countries in southern africa being shut off from the rest of the world have decided to put in travel bands. lot of that's happening in europe. nave . barker has this report on the situation across the continent from land. the on the con, variance is in europe with every passing hour. more cases are detected with a single largest number of infections found on to flight that arrived here at amsterdam shipple airport on friday from cape town, and johannesburg of the 624 passengers on board. $61.00 tested positive for cove at 19. the more than a dozen half the omicron variant, all and now isolating all the percent 100 percent of the people who return from southern africa will be contacted. we also asked the municipalities to visit 100 percent of the people at home to check whether they are really isolating the on the corn variance now being identified in germany, italy, the u. k. d

yes. many black south africans and indeed south african of all.— south african of all.klerk represented the might _ south african of all. yes, de klerk represented the might of- south african of all. yes, de klerk represented the might of the i south african of all. yes, de klerk| represented the might of the white minority rule government in south africa. for many years he started as a long lawyer and was born here in ipv6 and johannesburg and rose up through the ranks and became the mp for the southern town and then he ended up being the leader of the national party, so he is not really entirely divorced from the brutality of that evil system. and that is why today at the news of his passing, there are mixed messages, people who are singing his praises for the work he did in helping to end apartheid led by nelson mandela but also many who feel that de klerk should have actually stood trial for leading a white minority government as he is indeed the last white apartheid government president. i indeed the last white apartheid government president.- indeed the last white

the south african currency, the rans, already lost its value. after the announcement of the new variant, the government says south africa has been at the forefront of testing and tracking changes in code 19. and scientists have stressed it's important to see what the data on the new variant will show before making any decision. and that sentiment trickle down to the general public with many believes of africa being treated unfairly. the government is worried, the global reaction has caused unnecessary panic. it says it's begun talks with the european union and the united kingdom on the latest round of travel bands saying other countries didn't receive the same treatment. when you variance would take to elsewhere. for me to mila i'll to 0 johannesburg now. lane is that f d, me ologist and us public health official. he told us he understands the south african position, but governments are right to act on what they know so far. you have a variant which has about 30 mutations on the spike protein, so that alone is alarming. there's concerned because

even administratively, there was a relationship that allowed for symbolically south africans to adapt to the new south africa. and so it was important that that relationship between the 2 of them and that cooperation was seen by all south africans across color lines. and simply just to adapt and to avoid any potential chaos from it. or thank you so much, rita miller, they're talking to was life from johannesburg. ah, that's our top story. ok. now here today on al jazeera, the former south african president, f. w to clerk has died. he was the country's last a party at iraq president. he shed the 1993 nobel peace prize with nelson mandela. they work on reconciliation in south africa. he was 85 the u. k prime and a subarus. johnson has welcomed the us and china deal. both countries have declared that they will work together on climate action. the countries issued a joint statement separately. on wednesday, their invoice said they would cooperate to accelerate emissions cups and the temperature goals as they don't. and the 2015 paris agreement to renew is in bridging this is really import

has sent a large number of faxing to african countries to south africa in particular. and importantly, he's pressing ahead with going at the w t o, the world trade organization ministers conference in the coming week to press for a and a waiver of intellectual rights to the vaccines. this would allow for them to be manufactured on a global basis and make international access to the vaccines far more far greater. but the problem that remains the u. s. scientists working with the good ones and others are around the world. is that this variant is so far more virulent. it appears than previous ones. it may well test the vaccines that are currently being administered. yeah, for the moment mike, mike, hannah lifer, there in washington. oh so much she was so much is unknown about the on the kron a micro virus. here is what we do now. this point, as we heard, it was 1st identified in south africa from a sample that came from neighboring botswana. since then, more than 100 confirmed cases have been detected in those 2 countries as well as hong kong, israel and belgium. varian h

health experts are analyzing hundreds of samples as we speak we spoke about the response of the south african government saying the response to initiate the bans seemed rushed as even the world trade organization was yet to advice on next steps. i do know that south africa is ready to meet with the w.h.o. to discuss the national response. in previous cases, in previous covid-19 waves, we have seen them being greeted with new lockdowns, curfews and in some cases bans on alcohol sales. but it is not clear whether the government will respond in the same manner this time around, given the dire situation of the economy. in terms of vaccination, right now we are also seeing governments urging citizens to get vaccinated only 35% of adults, south africans here are fully vaccinated, which is short of the target of double that amount this year. it's very interesting that earlier this week, south africa asked pfizer to block shipments of new vaccines given the fact we're sitting on stock piles and that's what's happening on the ground and we're monitoring what's happening especially the meeting today. >

, but has been assigned the greek latter omicron 1st case was detected in botswana, but it was south african scientists who 1st identified it over a 100 confirmed cases have been found in south africa, hong kong and botswana, the changes in the 32 mutations on what is called the spike protein. this is what the virus uses to access humans cells and cause infection in the body. it's also what most vaccines are designed to target, but it could take weeks of work to uncover what impact these changes could have on how effective the vaccines are. algae, there is the d baba has our report now. it's the news. no one wanted to hear the discovery of a new covey variant called army kron 1st identified in south africa, has hit world stock markets as concerns grow about a new global threat. the world health organization has labeled it a variance of concern based upon the information that we have, particularly from south africa. and they have advised w h o that this variance should be classified as a variant of concern. so today we are now seeing b 11529 is the variance of concern named on the crime, the

angelique, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us, dr angelique coetzee who chairs the south african holiday—makers and british expats in south africa have told of their frustration at having to cancel trips following the uk's decision to ban flights to and from the country. let's speak now with one of them, ruth daines—slack. let's speak to one of them now. ruth, how have your plans been affected? my ruth, how have your plans been affected? y , ., , ruth, how have your plans been affected? g , . , ., , affected? my plans have been affected? my plans have been affected for— affected? my plans have been affected for the _ affected? my plans have been affected for the last _ affected? my plans have been affected for the last two - affected? my plans have been| affected for the last two years. affected? my plans have been i affected for the last two years. i have tried to go three times for major events in my family. my mother's 100th major events in my family. my mother's100th birthday, we were having to go into isolation in a hotel, so i couldn't go for her birthday. my 70th birthday,

many south africans found that hard to swallow and today there is a lukewarm tone to some tributes.ath that his party that he led had embarked upon from 1948, and we will remember him for that. de klerk was a divisive figure, and an unlikely revolutionary, but history will record his key role in bringing freedom to south africa. so, above all, de klerk was a pragmatist and a very necessary one. he latched onto this role as as elder statement but the truth is that south africans never really warmed to him. that's partly because he always seemed to imply that apartheid was never really as bad as evil as people made out and also because he failed to acknowledge his own responsibility in it. andrew harding with the latest thoughts injohannesburg. the chief executive of yorkshire county cricket club, mark arthur, has become the latest seniorfigure to resign in the row over racism that's engulfed the club. earlier, the former yorkshire captain, azeem rafiq, who's made allegations of institutional racism at the club, said he was "incredibly hurt" after the england test captain and yorkshir

and also because many south africans are worried about the long term effects of the vaccines that are on the market. now, south african scientists have been very vocal in saying that they were the 1st to come forward and be transparent about this new variant that has been found. they insist it's not a south african variant, and that it is elsewhere in the global community that instead of being applauded south africa has now been push on the blacklist policy r t to hannah's book, south africa and adviser to the italian health authorities says that current preventative measures are only having a limited impact on the new strain, and this could be our reality for years to come. meanwhile, the u. k. is re introducing quarantine in a government mandated hotel for people arriving from south africa. and the british health secretary also believes coverage is going to be with us for in some form forever. he was asked to learn to live with coven. we will never defeat it. we have to learn to live with it. we have to learn to live with it. as we have learned to live with flu, of course, it is not

also, a few things about the south african variant. do not think it is causing death or hospitalizations. i read an article that a lot of things are mild but different symptoms. and then one last thing and i will wrap it up and listen to other comments. i remember when covid first came to america biden and the democrats were all blaming trump. why didn't he protect us? no one is blaming biden. he should have got blamed for the delta killing so many more people this year than when trump was president, same with south africa. what is he? doing to protect you? i know he probably cannot, but you have to cover both sides. they were blaming trump after being in office and he cut down travel and stuff like that. right didn't biden protect us? -- why didn't biden protect us? host: we will hear more from president biden today. he is supposed to speak to the nation about this new variant of covid-19. how the business sector is responding. virus variant gets response from companies but it is important not to catastrophize and jump to the worst. y

they insist, it's not a south african variant. and that it is elsewhere in the global community that instead of being applauded, south africa has now been push on the blacklist policy r, r t, johannesburg, south africa and advice at the italian health authorities says the co preventative measures are only having limited impact on the do strain and this could be our reality for many years to come in while the u. k. is re introducing quarantine and a government mandated hotel for people coming from south africa or the british health. secretary also believes co, it's going to be with us since some foam forever. he was asked to learn to live with coven, we will never defeat it. we have to learn to live with it. we have to learn to live with it. as we have learned to live with flu, of course, it is not flu, and we need to learn more about in cases of omnicom have already been discovered in germany in belgium, the czech republic. and there are at least 13 cases in the netherlands that came after a flight of individuals came in from sout

see the government doesn't see any reason why they should be further restrictions and raw the south africans to get the vaccinate it. there is a lot of concern around what these travel restrictions will mean for southern africa as a region, especially ahead of the holiday period with thousands of visitors from europe and the u. k. are expected and just the, it could not make impact, but it's certainly a lot of anger from the president and the government around the good work. they say scientists are doing a route sequencing to them sequencing and also just tracing cobra, 1900 changes. and instead south africa being punished. and so he doesn't want to change the restrictions test, but more about the impact he seems to think it's having already this varied well, he says there is some speculation around just how much this new variant has contributed to new cases. in the last couple of weeks, a few weeks ago there was an average of a perhaps 4 or 500 cases every day. that's now gone up to about $1600.00, so they has been about a 90 percent rise. the government says around coven 19 infections, but

people love frantically trying to get back into the south african sciences, say they're worried, existing vaccines may not be effect. and the new variant may spread easily. genomics develops in south africa has been outstanding throughout this whole pandemic period. and that's why we've been able to identify when changes occur. the fact that we are able to identify changes quickly is good news is good news for the world. but we must be careful that we don't then jumped the conclusion of, well, that equals, it came from here. it came from there. and it means it's this so that we need to understand much more about this. so far, dozens of infections have been identified in south africa. while in botswana, the government says the new virus was found in several foreign nationals on a diplomatic visit. while the south african government says it respects the decision taken by the u. k and other countries to limit travel to and from the region. and that precautionary measures may be necessary. it says the decision is rushed the actual office, some of the coaches in terms of imposing travel beds a

the former south african president fw de klerk, whose died at the age of 85.njecting a new type of drug into their spinal cords. the mice learned to walk again four weeks after being injected with a gel that encouraged molecules in the spinal cord to "dance," promoting nerve regeneration. the team hope to begin patient trials within two years. professor samuel stupp, who led the study, explained. we discovered that the motion of the molecules inside this filament is critical in their ability to signal cells in the spinal cord in order to initiate repair. so when the molecules move a lot, for example, theyjump out of the filament and come right down, or they moved to different positions within the filament, they dance around, with lots of motion, then the paralysis is prevented in the mouse. a new species of dinosaur with an unusually large nose has been identified by a retired doctor in southern england. the bones were uncovered more than a0 years ago on the isle of wight. duncan kennedy has more. gnarled, nobbly and what a nose! this is how the not very daint

many of them south africans desperate to get into the country. many of them have not been able to visit for at least 2 years. and they have loved ones, some of whom are sick, some of whom are elderly, here in the country, and waiting to see them. i said to them, okay, i'm coming to check in. will i be able to get home? i'm only going for 10 days, just my mother. and she started the computer interested. all the flats for december had been cancelled. so if you go, you can get back. and if you get back, you're going to total our team for 2 weeks and i've got 2 boys and i just knew that i, i actually had to knock that flat and i was devastated and hop broken. i've got double vaccinated up what a booster shot. i had all the documentation i could have got on the fly, and that would have taken me to south africa back australia supposedly borders to that they wouldn't allow anybody to come back into the country. and so i feels excessive and i feel very sadden. but i feel like the other information is making them really concerned just in a few days. every

things just, it's not a south african variant. and that it is elsewhere in the global community that instead of being pulled it south africa, has now been push on the blacklist policy r t to hunter's book south africa. the sex trafficking, trial of british socialized delay maxwell is beginning in new york. she's accused of grooming underage girls for the convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein, who died in prison in 2019 allowed to america correspondent john how he is outside the courthouse. hi, john kaylee anticipated trial this. get us up to speed on. well right. 59 year old and gillen maxwell has been in jail nearly 17 months since being charged with several count on federal charge, including the sex trafficking of minors. now prosecutors, including by the way, maureen, coney, whose the daughter a former f b i. director james told me she's among the federal prosecutors on the team. they maintain that malcolm maxwell essentially helped recruit and groom young women some as young as the 14 years of age to essentially perform sexua

they'd or, we will also speak with the south african minister of public enterprise.his is bloomberg. ♪lo tom: welcome back to the open. 26 minutes into the trading day and heavy selling continues. the euro stoxx 600 down 3.5%. travel and leisure -- u.s. futures extending their losses. down 2%. coming up, we will be talking black friday and how the new variant may affect retail sales. stay with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ it's another day. and anything could happen. it could be the day you welcome 1,200 guests and all their devices. or it could be the day there's a cyberthreat. only comcast business' secure network solutions give you the power of sd-wan and advanced security integrated on our activecore platform so you can control your network from anywhere, anytime. it's network management redefined. every day in business is a big day. we'll keep you ready for what's next. comcast business powering possibilities. francine: welcome back to the open. variant concern, a new strain identified in south africa prompts flight bands. european stocks selling off with treasure --

this announcement does put pressure on the south african government to activate with urgency and for ociety and environmental acts within south africa to say you don't have an excuse anymore to drag your feet. of course, the unions want to see what this is about but i think given the scale of the money, we should be able to ensure trust -- just transition and make the right investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy technology. juan: despite the climate crisis, there is more coal mines being opened up around the world these days than ever. ven that coal is the most polluting fossil fuel in many countries are heavily relying on it for electricity, how do you think that you like this might have an impact in other countries, like india or indonesia or other nations around the world? >> we hope that this announcement will have -- particularly with the to you mentioned, indonesia, india, australia, and several others does she have to recognize with investment of even one dollar in any new coal project based on what we know and how close we are to the climate cliff, must be understoo

government that south africa has been punished along with other southern african countries for detecting this variant in south africa. they are at the moment about 19 cases of the new variant in neighboring botswana. and those samples were sent to south africa. and that's also how this variant wires are identified. and the president had also gone on to talk about what a good job local sciences were doing in terms of the sequencing of genomes, as well as watching out for changes in mutations and the coven, 19 virus. and instead of being applauded for that, south africa is being punished. and this will just really worse than the economic situation in a country that's already had months of locked down where the south african ran. the currency has lost a significant amount of value and with thousands of jobs have been lost. and so this type of reaction, they're calling knee jerk reaction. they say is just unjustified unwarranted and simply unfair. what else do you have to say about the, the, the cases, the effect this is having on numbers of cases there. so, rama was, i had noted that about

and so, and then also i've read read a few things about south african variant. they never talk about i don't think it's causing deaths or hospitalizations. i read an article that a lot of the things are mild but a different type of symptoms. and then one last thing i'll wrap it up and listen to other comments, but i remember when the covid first came to america. biden and the democrats were all blaming trump. why didn't he protect us? he knew it could get here. but when the dell -- delta came, no one's blaming biden. oh, we knew-in india. he should -- it was in india. he should have gotten blamed for delta killing so many more people this year than when trump was president. same with south african. you know -- it's not here yet, what is he doing to protect you? you have to cover both sides. they were blaming trump after being in office and it coming within a month and he cut down travel and stuff like that, blame him. why didn't he protect us? well, why didn't biden protect us -- >> host: well, we will hear more from president biden today about 11:45 or so he's

so far in 3 countries, botswana, south african hong kong. what does that tell us about how it's spreading? well, we're looking, obviously the south african jenoma network is looking across south africa at the moment. and obviously we also work the south african net to it was very closely with other countries in the region. so there are now more they've identified more of these cases. it's still under a 100, but we're seeing we started off seeing it in one central province in south africa. and now we think that it probably has spread into other provinces as well. but there is a sort of hotspot center around johannesburg and pretoria that happened, some scientists voicing concern saying that this very and could be was the nearly anything else about including the delta strain? how worried a you about it? look, i think when we see something like this and we don't yet understand it, we must all be very concerned. and scientists have to turn their full attention to trying to understand it. but i don't think people should jump to panic, or we've se

many south africans found that hard to swallow and today there is a lukewarm tone to some tributes.d had embarked upon from 1948, and we will remember him for that. de klerk was a divisive figure, and an unlikely revolutionary, but history will record his key role in bringing freedom to south africa. a new species of dinosaur with an unusually large nose has been identified by a retired doctor in southern england. the bones were uncovered more than forty years ago on the isle of wight. they'd been in storage until drjeremy lockwood decided to reconstruct the skull of the animal and realised they belonged to an undiscovered species. duncan kennedy has more gnarled, nobbly and what a nose! this is how the not very dainty dino would have looked like. and the usp of this vip, its bulbous snout. and here we have vertebra or backbone of... its remains had spent 40 years in old boxes untiljeremy lockwood, a retired gp, went through them. he'd always believed there had to be more than two types of dinosaur on the island. and he was right. i took a bone, which was a nasal bone, and i thought

so it's not a south african variant. and that it is elsewhere in the global community that instead of being applauded south africa has now been push on the blacklist policy r t to hunter's book south africa on an adviser to the italian. the health authorities says the current preventative measures are only having a limited impact on the new strike. and this could be our reality for years to come . the mob, the u. k is reducing quarantine in a government mandated out tell for people coming from south africa of the british health. secretary also believes that cope it's going to be with us in some form forever. he was asked to learn to live with cove and we will never defeat it. we have to learn to live with it. we have to learn to live with it as we have learned to live with flu. of course, it is not flu and dead. you know, we need to learn more about in cases of, of new come, have already been discovered in germany in belgium, the czech republic. and there are at least 13 cases in the netherlands that came after a flight

now let me say i know this has been hurtful to the south african leadership. let me also say the south african public health experts and scientists have been absolutely remarkable in their transparency, their openness. they're telling the world about what they have found as soon as they knew about it. we all owe them a big debt of gratitude for waking us up to what was coming. that hasn't always happened before. and in this instance, they were wonderful citizens of the world. >> yeah, and that's how it should work. you do want these countries when they discover a variant to share that with the world so other parts of the country or other parts of the globe in other countries can be prepared for what is coming. dr. francis collins, thank you so much for joining us and giving us that clear-eyed assessment. i want to bring in olivia troye who formerly served as an aide to vice president mike pence and was his lead staffer on the white house coronavirus task force. olivia, thank you so much for joining us. so let's start with the second part of this equation. we j

i think the main concern for southern african countries, including south africa, really is this rush to bad travel from 6 countries in the region, especially to the u. k. the south african government has issued a statement saying that it respects the decision that's been taken by the united kingdom and understands that precautionary measures should be put in place. but that decision is washed and it's really worried about the economic damage. given that we're heading into a holiday season and there's bound to be a lot of travel back and back and forth between the 2 countries. so really the concern. c from the south african government around one the spread of this variant in south africa, again urging south africa and to take precaution, but also wanting greater clarity on what exactly this new variant will mean for south africa and the world. but at the same time, trying to balance an upcoming restrictions with an economy that's already suffered . founded a thanks very much and he does farmer the miller talking to us from johannesburg. let's bring in, jonah hollis. familar was explai

and some of the south african nations.nomic is here. so is davis wright, decatur capital founder and ceo and cnbc contributor, let's start walking through when you see this, when you wake up, we weren't expecting. what was your first reaction >> well, i picked up on it last night after watching first seasonal viewing of christmas vacation and popped in and looked and saw this was down all this much. listen, i really think that the variants various ebbs and flows of the waves that we've gotten haven't affected economic activity as much as people think. certainly the markets will react to it. even if you looked at the gdp numbers last week, you saw gross domestic income, which cap cures business cycles better than gross domestic product, adding up the income of households and corporations, actually expanded by 6.7% in thatthird quarter at this point unless there is something far more severe here, i don't think it will have that much impact on economic activity so my inclination is i'm probably not as bullish this morning as

many south africans found that hard to swallow and today, there is a lukewarm tone to some tributes.ay from the path that his party that he led had embarked upon from 19118, and we will remember him for that. de klerk was a divisive figure, and an unlikely revolutionary, but history will record his key role in bringing freedom to south africa. the former president of south africa, fw de klerk, who's died at the age of 85. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: we'll tell you how scientists treating paralysed mice in the us are now a step closer to reversing paralysis in humans. the bombastic establishment outsider donald trump has defied the pollsters to take the keys to the oval office. i feel great about the election results. i voted for him because i genuinely believe that he cares about the country. it's keeping - the candidate's name always in the - public eye that counts. success or failure depends not only on public display, j but on the local- campaign headquarters and the heavy routine workj of their women volunteers. berliners from both east and west linked hands and danc

many south africans found that hard to swallow and today there is a lukewarm tone to some tributes.rom the path that his party that he led had embarked upon from 19118, and we will remember him for that. de klerk was a divisive figure, and an unlikely revolutionary, but history will record his key role in bringing freedom to south africa. andrew harding, bbc news. scientists in the us have reversed back leg paralysis in mice after injecting a new type of drug into their spinal cords. the mice learned to walk again four weeks after being injected with a gel that encouraged molecules in the spinal cord to "dance", promoting nerve regeneration. the team hope to begin patient trials within two years. professor samuel stupp, who led the study, explained. we discovered that the motion of the molecules inside this filament is critical in their ability to signal cells in the spinal cord in order to initiate repair. so when the molecules move a lot, for example, theyjump out of the filament and come right down, or they moved to different positions within the filament, they dance around with

according to south african scients the mom kron variant has more than 50 mu taitions and likely to be more transmissible. >> it has a bunch of mu taitions, a disturbingly large number of mu taitions in the spike protein which is the business end of the virus. >> the covid-19 vaccine targets spike protein. if the spike changes too much and in the wrong way, it could make the vaccine as less effective. >> the president of moderna said yesterday what is most scary about this virus is it has managed to put all of its greatest hits into one variant. >> trevor: all the greatest hits in one place. like if mama mia killed you instead of teaching you about the power of of love. and what is so scary about this thing is all the mu taitions to the virus of spike protein because the spike protein is how the virus penetrates our cells t is basically cooed vid tdick and a mutated drk ick is never a good thing there is no hallmark card that says congratulations on your mutated dick. but i'm no expert, so to get a more informed perspective i sent roy wood, jr. out to cdc headquarters in atlanta. i kno