little bit of this. we had a hint of it with the delta variant in the south here in texas. and and neighboring southern states. and it created a firestorm or what my friend mike osterholm likes to call a virus blizzard where kids are getting swept up in it. not that the not that the variant is specifically targeting kids. but they are getting along with it. so the expectation is omicron will do something similar. we kind of had a hint that was going to happen based on south africa and and the uk. so, we are going to see a lot of children s hospitals admissions. some pediatric icu admissions. the big unknown, i think, is how much of our health-care workforce is going to get knocked out because they have breakthrough covid. right. and that he is the kind of toxic mix i am looking at. and that s why big reason, dr. reiner, why the cdc changed its guidance and cut in half the kwar quarantine time. earlier today, i spoke with the
addressed this crowd earlier today. governor mike huckabee who talked to reporters and was i think arguably reluctant to take on donald trump. he explained he s a candidate wanted to talk about his ideas and policies and doesn t want to be push into being a social media critic of donald trump. he strongly defended megyn kelly, a colleague when he was at fox news distanced himself from the comments and right now ted cruz is wrapping up and by talking to many of the attendees here, ted cruz is one of the favorites among the presidential candidates this is his kind of crowd, social conservatives who are active and engaged. many are from neighboring southern states. ted cruz is likely going to address this as well. alex, ted cruz has been perhaps most reluctant to take on donald trump personally or directly saying really invoking the reagan 11th commandment, say nothing ill of another republican and at the same time much of the anger and the sentiment that has motivated trump supporters