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>> david mackenzie, appreciate you being there in johannesburg, south africa. back with dr. gupta and wen. by the way, has spent time living and working in south africa. sanjay, as david was saying, the variant is now dominant in south africa even though it was only detected two weeks ago. um, when you hear from some doctors there that the symptoms have been mild, what should we take from that? because i mean, is it possible that if a mild virus is more transmissible, is that actually a bad thing at all? i mean, if -- if it gets people -- if it's more mild than something else and people get immunity or some level of immunity after having it, is that a bad thing? >> i -- i think it is. i mean, i don't think it's a good strategy because, you know, people can still get sick and, you know, as david pointed out, this initial cluster was in college students. what about older people? what about, you know, people who don't have any immunity yet? i think the vaccination rate