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How quickly it goes down, you can't always extrapolate. i'll tell you why, katy. sometimes we've seen big waves go up and down here in the u.s. whereas in the uk it goes up, goes down halfway, then it lingers on for months. so it's hard to really count on that. it's a hope. it would be great, because if you think about it, the timing would be really great because it would decline around the time the kids are ready to go back to schools and go back to colleges. i wouldn't -- we can't take that to the bank, we can't count on it. >> it would be helpful, so let's cross our fingers. steve, you're a...

The number of americans vaccinated were minuscule. how much of the surge we're seeing now is about the omicron variant or is it more that not enough people have gotten vaccinated, not enough people have gotten the booster? >> well, not enough people have gotten vaccinated for sure. and in this country only one-third of individuals who should have that third dose. a dose i don't like to call a booster. i think it's part of a three prime series, something we should have been promoting for months that we needed three doses. that's there. the question right now is, as you're asking about what is o...