emerging and diminishing somewhat the effects of our vaccines. we're gonna get to that with these two guests with us tonight. doctor van ghouta, critical care pulmonologist and seattle specializing in exactly this kind of thing. he's on faculty the university of washington, institute for health metrics and evaluation and we have stephen sample back with us. he's an er doctor at the memorial hospital and health care center in jasper indiana. also voluntary clinical factory member at the clinical school of medicine. good evening to you both, thank you for spending a few moments of your memorial day monday with us. and doctor gupta, since you are physically closest to a specific roomy that the first question it's about this troublesome vietnam variant. here's how the washington post put it now announced on saturday that it has detected a highly transmissible new variant of the coronavirus that