there is thought there could be even new mutations. it looks like that bay. we know of ba.1 and ba.2, there s all these numbers, there s ba.2.12.1, there is two more that are starting to circulate in south africa pretty significantly and they are no doubt going to come here. we have to assume when we see these things happening in other places around the world, viruses don t they cross borders, they don t discriminate in this way. take a look at what s happening in south africa, this is what gave us the clue about omicron in the first place, going back to the end of last year. saw that, okay, that s coming. if you look at the right side of that screen you start to see the numbers tipping up again. that is going up cases, but also an increase in hospitalizations, john. important. about a third of people in south africa are vaccinated, but let me show you the next screen which i think tells an important story here. they have these significant waves, you know, many people in the countr