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so it's really that holiday wintertime viral season plus being indoors that makes it hard. >> and doctor, we saw an increase in cases with the new variant, the delta variant, right? now the omicron variant is out there. are you anticipating that we'll see a similar surge with omicron that we saw with delta? >> yeah. every indication so far, boris, is that this omicron variant is more transmissible than the delta strain or our original coronavirus strain. so we can expect to see an increase in case numbers. so far the patient is that omicron cases will probably be around 50% in the next couple of weeks or so. and so we can expect the numbers of omicron cases to go up. we're already seeing that in hospitals in several states are really being stretched and with the increase in anticipated cases that may lead to increase in hospitalization numbers, we

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