coronavirus, do we know whether they are any less likely to be severely ill than if they had been infected with delta or with the original strain of covid that we contended with? >> let me tell you exactly what i know. i have sat for days with our scientific colleagues from south africa. there are fewer hospitalizations per case in south africa. there's fewer icu admissions. there's shorter length of stays. there's no increase in the oxygen requirements. all that suggests that it may be less severe. now, that may be due to different demographics in south africa, different rates of natural immunity, or maybe it's the virus itself, or it may be a combination. some of the initial animal work that i am seeing, it's very, very preliminary, suggests that maybe, maybe, you know, it is --
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