rising side of the graph. the hope is we ll peak very soon and see a fall in cases. the important thing, of course, is to see what impact all this infection is having on hospitalizations and severe disease. i know the data has been mixed on that. what do you take from the data we have so far? yeah, i m just looking at what s happening in the uk. i think the general consensus is, of course, the infection with omicron is milder than de delta. but wen you have such high levels of infections, you are going to get a small but significant proportion of people severely ill. so what we are seeing is a slight increase in the number of cases in the uk being hospitalized. that s increasing day by day. the big concern we have now is the spread of omicron from younger people where there was a concentration of infection a few weeks ago into the older populations, particularly during sort of mixing of populations into generational mixing like
we re seeing more and more people vaccinated. but again, the people vaccinated today are not going to be protected until six weeks from now. so it s going to take some time. but i think people are taking de delta seriously. i think they re realizing this is something they need to be concerned about. i m hoping as a result of that we re starting to see a flattening of the curve, delta increases in some places. even florida is beginning to see a little bit of flattening which may be encouraging news. the reality is delta is better. i want to reassure if you ve been vaccinated, you really are in good shape even with the lower protection against infection from delta. there may be breakthrough cases but you re unlikely to be hospitalized or dead. the problem is people who are not vaccinated. if i was not vaccinated, i would really be scared about this strain. this is really highly transmissible and you can get you can end up being very sick. i can tell you, we have our hospitals full of p