health care system has not. as cases and hospitalizations start to fall, we re still seeing deaths increase. now, we know deaths are a lagging indicator. first come the cases, then the hospitalizations, then come the deaths. how much longer do you expect to see in daily deaths from qucovi with hospitalizations and cases going down? it is hard to know. omicron is a different svb from delta and the earlier variants. i expect that we ll see deaths rise for another couple weeks and then hopefully devees. there have been some preliminary reports that deaths are happening a little earlier with omicron than prior variants. we also now have better treatments so we may be able to stave off death for more folks. dr. fauci also said on cnn, the worst-case scenario is that after omicron we get another variant that can evade vaccines.