joining me is dr. peter hotez, the co-director for the center for vaccine development. good to see you. start with the second confirmed case of the omicron variant, this person in minnesota. the health department says that he recently returned from had recently travels to new york city for a big conference at the javits center. what do you make of this with the catch yacht, of course, that we re going to see more cases as they continue to test more to find more cases of this omicron variant? yes. i think, kate, the difference is that this one was likely acquired locally within the united states either within minnesota or this traveler picked it up during a visit to new york city. so potentially now it s on both coasts and that means we ll continue to see the number of cases rise. in terms of what we re dealing with, therefore, we should consider the possibility that now we ve got to fight covid on go fronts, one, the existing