these patients and try to get them connected to the care resources they need. again, you don't want to get long covid. any time you're infected with covid, you're putting yourself at risk of that. the best way to prevent that is vaccination. >> dr. long, thank you so much for being with me this morning. there's so many questions about all this evolving -- doctor, i want to ask you -- i was speaking with dr. fauci earlier this week about the possibility that we could be kind of seeing ebb and flow, right, of omicron, delta went down and then omicron hit and now omicron is dropping in most of the country and then this son of omicron may or may not be. do you see like a wave pattern that we're going to be living through? >> soho say, i think all of us two years in are tired of these repeated surges. unfortunately, every time we have a surge, some people will predict, oh, maybe this is the