amazing the speed that this has burned through or is burning through the country. we are seeing the biggest spikes in new york and new jersey, not unusual, where we saw the pandemic start, big urban areas. but it is also places where people are testing more. and i wonder what is the likelihood that omicron is actually spreading broadly as well, but in other places where folks just aren't testing as much. >> it is certainly spreading below the surface across the united states. if you actually look at the projections on the cdc's web page, which is how they're estimating that omicron is now the dominant var yiant across t united states, you see higher percentages of omicron, in fact, in some areas with less testing than is being done in the northeast. so that's certainly possible and based on what we know about omicron, you know, a plane flight from one region to another of the country is enough to see it in a new area. truly this is going to be the strain across the united states, but here's an important caveat,