states having increasing cases without a new variant in, so at the end of the day let s be worried about what we have right now not what we re going have in the future, if we have. and this new variant notely, at least not yet, hat not been given a greek name like delta, and that indicates that not yet at least w.h.o. doesn t see it as a variant of concern. let s go back to when we didn t know what the delta variant was. how similar is what we re hearing now out of south africa to what we re starting to hear then about what would then become delta? well, i think it s in a way similar. we started to see a very rapid increase in cases in india where the delta variant emerged and then it went to the uk and other places around europe and then it came to our country so at the end of the day this variant spread very, very rapidly, and the biggest concern with delta is how transmissible it is, and we still don t know how transmissible this variant is. we think it may be even more