everyone else. what do actually know right now? >> i actually feel that a lot of people, including myself, are hesitant because things may change, this is a moving picture. but i want to, before we tell you what i know about omicron, when people hear those, they think, we've been through this for two years and people are overwhelmed. whatever we find out, we're in a better place now than we were in the winter of 2020 a year ago or two years ago because we have all of these things include rapid testing and vaccines. what we know about this variant, genetically, it looks like it might potentially have properties that allow it to be more transmissible. if you're in a room with a person with omicron versus delta, the person with omicron will pass it on to you, that's what more transmissible means. we don't know that for sure. that's what the genetic code is telling us. and in other variants, they have potentially been able to reduce the effectiveness of vaccines