patient coming in who has mild symptoms, some fatigue, scratchy throat and they don't have the fevers and cough and running nose that we're expecting usually with covid-19 that you should be testing these individuals for omicron. we should have a high index of suspicion for patients with mild symptoms initially because they might have omicron. i think that's what show was saying don't worry about omicron, people don't get that sick. it's too early to know because the clusters in south africa interest tended to come in university-aged students who probably are not going to get that ill. >> too early to know so we're grateful for your insights on this day and we'll circle back, dr. wen, as we do learn more about omicron in the days and weeks ahead. npr arabia rasco and cnn's jeremy diamond and marianna sotomayor. the president is mott going to change his schedule. don't panic. let's learn about this as we go