minnesota and dr. shirley zee, hospitalist at hennepin health care in minneapolis. i appreciate both of you very much for taking your precious time to be here. professor osterholm, president biden warning a winter of severe illness and death, particularly of the unvaccinated. but you say there are very clear signs that this is we are already in an explosive mode here across the country just on the infection side of it. not even on the hospitalizations, which are also up 40%. well, as you re hearing right now from around the country these outbreaks that are starting to occur with large numbers of people suddenly infected, you heard just now as it relates to the new york data and how fast we re seeing the increase in the number of variants, omicron variants being detected. and i think we re really just about to experience a viral blizzard. if you look at what s happened in south africa and europe, i think in the next three to eight weeks we ll see millions of americans that are infec