thanks for joining. >> great to see you, too, don. >> some experts say this shows omicron is not the doomsday variant but others are looking for more data. what is your read on the cdc report? >> i still think that it's too early for us to tell exactly what is going to happen with omicron. there is good news and bad news. i'll start with the bad news first. the bad news is it looks like it's contagious. it could be twice as contagious as the delta variant. that's not good. it doesn't seem to be causing more severe disease but the c caveat is if it doesn't spread severe disease, it could still overwhelm the hospitals and already in some parts of the country we're already seeing a lot of hospitals being over run. we've also seen this week that there is some degree of immune escape, meaning vaccinated