caveat. omicron spreads so quickly amongst the community that even though there is a chance that the disease may be milder, the caseloads potentially could be so high that that would still put a strain on our hospital system. so milder disease is not the only thing that gives me pause. it s a math problem here, right? more folks, even though it s a lower percentage, that still could be trouble for icus and so on which are already still overwhelmed. i do want to ask about the direction of this latest surge, because when you look to south afr africa where it came first, it went up very quickly but also came down very quickly. i wondering if you see the same likely trajectory here in the u.s. yes, it will spread very quickly, take over as the dominant variant, but does that portend a quicker surge? it s hard to say because even