is my black santa with the booster shot. he is gearing the booster shot for everybody. tell me about this. people are really confused. everyone i know is really scared of omicron, or as i m supposed to call omarian. they re scared of it. it does seem like it s spreading so fast. i ve known multiple people who have unfortunately contracted covid just in the past couple weeks. omicron deadlier or just more spreadable? or should we cancel our plans? right. so thank you so much for having me. you know, i will say that the data that we have so far is preliminary. but what we see from the uk, south africa and denmark is omicron may be a bit milder than delta. so we re seeing a decreased risk of hospitalization among people who do get omicron. but to put that in context, both south africa and these european countries have a higher degree of partial immunity. south africa, 70% of people have