thanks, peter. now let s go to dr. bob lahita from the st. joseph s institute. you hear more about cases like peters and others in the surge in cases across the country. when do you think, doctor, it begins to ebb? based on what we know about south africa and now the united kingdom, i presume this will ebb late february, early march. so i do think the numbers will come down. we ve had 99% roughly in estimates of the population that have the covid virus is omicron. so omicron is out there. it s taken over. neil: so as you have been telling us from the beginning, it s very contagious, certainly more than the other variants that we ve experienced so far but not very dangerous.