the extent to which vaccines will be effective against this. i don't think there's panic on that front yet. third, you know, the other thing about these variants that have mutations in the spike protein, similar ones that we've seen before the b-13531 out of south africa, the lambda out of south america, those never really went anywhere. so it's not as if just because you have mutations in the spike protein that it spreads all over the world. the fact that we've identified this in hong kong and australia and europe, likely the united states. that doesn't mean necessarily that it's more transmissible. this has been pretty much true of every variant, that it pops up in multiple places very quickly, just like when we first tried to enact travel bans from china and the virus had already entered into new york city from southern europe to ignite the terrible epidemic there. so i think the most important thing you need to know now over