cases just skyrocketing in the places where it's transmitting just ahead of the holidays. we also just got news that house majority whip james clyburn has tested positive for covid. he says he's fully vaccinated and boosted. so far asymptomatic. he's 81 years old. dr. craig spencer is director of global health and emergency medicine at columbia university medical center. he recently wrote about his concerns that omicron will overwhelm america's emergency rooms in "the atlantic." and dr. eric topol is a professor of molecular medicine at scripps research. also writer and residence at substack where he publishes the newsletter "ground truth." dr. topol, let me start with you because you have been -- i follow you for sort of granular updates on the emerging omicron literature. and again, a lot of this is very early. it's preprint which means it hasn't gone through peer review. and we've got both lab sudies which are looking at hon the molecule works and the virus works and then we've got just what's happening out in the world.