these studies have been coming in for a couple of weeks now and we have a wave of them over the last several days that show a lower risk of hospitalization with omicron than compared to delta. should americans take these findings as encouraging? >> so i'd rather see these findings than other findings, right? it's good that we're seeing the hospitalizations are less common, but it doesn't mean you throw all caution to the wind and say, okay, so this is just a cold. that's not the case. people are still being hospitalized. also we need to protect people who may not have been as well protected by their vaccines, elderly people or people with compromised immune systems. they could get hit by omicron very hard. let's take a look at results of a study, for example, that was done in scotland. so in scotland they found a two-thirds reduction in hospital risk when compared to when the delta variant was dominant and