what they're seeing there. >> based on the current evidence in south africa, it's transmitting faster than the delta variant and the overlap with the beta variant some evidence of immune escape from antibodies. the clinical is just basic with covid, nothing different. the second is that what they are seeing are largely younger people, but that's to be expected, because we have much higher vaccine coverage in the older people. we have a much lower vaccine coverage in younger people, so that's just to be expected. >> now this morning, president biden will be briefed by his white house covid team, then he will deliver an update on the omicron variant to the country. with more on all of this, let's bring in michael ostorholm, from the university of minnesota. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. look, i know this is going to take time to figure out how