to spread it to individuals who are more sensitive to severe disease and number three, you will have more possibility of forming another worse variant. we are already seeing indications of another variant right now in southern france that appears to have arisen from cameroon, and this is just a continuous problem when there's so much transmission. >> senator rubio said that people are testing positive who were admitted to the hospital for other cases. are you seeing that? >> let me just be clear. we are, we have almost as high a level of patients with covid in our hospitals as we did during the delta peak in august here. so, we are, we are almost at the same level as we were in august. now, yes, some of those individuals presented with noncovid symptoms initially. but that doesn't mean that can covid is not contributed to the