being with us. i know you were just treating other patients, so we appreciate you taking the time to speak to us. we have very important questions for you. namely, talk to us about the severity of the cases you are seeing. how sick are the patients you are seeing who do have this new variant? good evening or good afternoon. south africa time, it is afternoon. so, yeah, it is a very good question. the public needs to understand what we currently are seeing. it is very early days, and it is now, more or less, i call it a we have made a diagnosis of the new variant going around. if you look at the beginning of any pandemic wave, it is normally not that severe. it is normally the younger people that get infected.
back-to-back when we should ve gotten one dose and people and then once we got all the vulnerable people vaccinated into the second dose and we should not have been vaccinating people with natural immunity early on. we could ve rationed better and saved over 100,000 lives. trace: the way have status as is about asked mandates saying they work. now in place and 25% of business, 40% of hospitals and colleges serving 37% of students. bottom line, 95 million eligible americans were unvaccinated when biden made his mandate announcement. in the federal rules of private businesses haven t even been finalized yet. they think it s working magnificently. do you think so? in the short term i am hearing employers saying that they are seeing some people come from vaccination that who otherwise not. but we can only sound the spiral arm 70 times in public health. that is a big leather when he mandate something in with the next pandemic wave hard and a lot of people now and lost a lot of credibili