previous variations of coronavirus is, you know, you can get tests right after you get off a flight, they say sometimes it may take one or two days to show up. how fast is omicron compared to, say, the regular coronavirus or delta, like can you walk by somebody in the grocery store, can you go jogging by somebody in the park and if they cough, you've got it? or is it the kind of thing that still takes ten or 15 minutes of incubating and being in that person's presence before you contract it? >> we don't have all the data yet, but definitely the initial coronavirus took around 15 seconds -- 15 minutes, rather. this variant takes probably a few minutes when you're in close contact. we don't exactly know the hard numbers yet but we know because it is more contagious and people with omicron, they actually have higher viral loads meaning they're carrying more virus because the variant replicates