far seem to be in the way they put it, quote, extremely mild. do you take comfort in that? what does that do to your level of concern about the omicron variant now? i think that could potentially be good news. this is a doctor taking care of patients on the ground there. as everyone has said already, tease are early days. we know that the majority of the patients that were initially seen were young, and those patients tend to have milder sort of courses of illness already. so, you know, how much of that is something we should take comfort in versus this is sort of a natural trajectory of this particular virus. i think there s all sorts of data. there s two things to point out. one is that south africa oop op was in a quiet time right now in terms of the overall pandemic. it s sort of late spring there, kate. numbers have come way down. weather is getting warmer, all of that. but at the same time, when we