free at home covid tester shipping out as the u.s. launched a website to order the kids. this is coming as anthony fauci says it is too soon to tell of omicron marks the end of the pandemic. what are the numbers singling and why the medical associate professor joins me now. doctor, great to see you thank you for coming in. let s not bury the good news. the good news is omicron is more mild if you happen to get the sickness, let s hope you don t but if you get it chances are it ll be milder than the other variants and is displacing other variants, that is good news, right? exactly that is great news hospitalization appears to be down in even within the hospitalization although theirs increases in certain parts of the country there is a measurement, the covid hospitalization seems to be whoever is testing positive father in the hospital, but we really haven t separated out are those people who are coming in