>> it appears to be more of an upper airway disease than a lower airway disease. that's good for most americans. the one that may be a problem for is very young children, toddlers who have trouble with upper airway infections. >> the conversation on omicron has been that it's less severe as you stated in your previous answer. >> the reason i'm an emergency medicine doctor, the reason i'm a doctor at all is because at a very early age, at 5 years of age, i made a decision to be a doctor because i was that wheezy little asthmatic kid that was sent to the emergency department all the time for breathing treatments, usually set off by a virus. it could have been the shag carpeting, the two pets and the two smokers i had in my house in the '80s too. but certainly every time i got a virus, i would get an asthma attack. that's what we're seeing in a lot of these pediatric patients,