world vaccinated soon enough. we'll continue seeing this until we put vaccine equity at the top of our list not just donating a few doses or even a billion doses but putting resources in place around the world to get doses into the arms and not on the tarmac to stop this virus from mutating and coming into new variants and spreading around the world. >> experts have been saying if the united states and other countries didn't do more to immunize the entire world this is what was going to happen and now we are seeing it happening. you are an immunologist and have built your career researching vaccines. from the little we do know about omicron do you think our current vaccines will be able to hold up against it? >> from what i would speculate, jake, as you said, we don't have a lot of data yet. but it is still the sars cov-2