Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the Biden administration, said that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 appears to be able to “evade” the protection of antibodies induced by vaccines, in an interview with ABC on Sunday. “It appears to be able to evade some of the immune protection of things like monoclonal antibodies, convalescent plasma, and the antibodies that are induced by vaccines,” Fauci told “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos. “Preliminary data show that when you get a booster, for example the third shot of an mRNA [vaccine], it raises the level of protection high enough that it does do well, against the Omicron,” Fauci added. While Fauci noted that the “level of severity” with the Omicron variant appears to be “a bit less than that in the Delta,” he acknowledged that confounding factors may be at play such as “underlying protection in the community due to prior infections.” Just …