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Right now, joining us from ABC News, Alex Stone, in the pitch, Alex, that ABC sends, where they tell us what you're going to talk about.

It says, does it feel like everybody you know has COVID right now?

And the answer for me is, you know, it does. It really does, right? Yeah. The coworkers, family members,

we were just up in Northern California. And it's like my sister has it. It looks like my mother-in-law and everybody at work.

They've got it.

Friends have got it.

That this is kind of that time where everybody,

I mean, it's totally different than it used to be,

but where it feels like everybody's saying,

I can't come to the party or that they're not at work today

because they're out with COVID and then they're out

for a few days and they come back.

The one about this, though, and this variant, the flirt variant that's going around is that

it does seem to, you know how every variant it kind of hits people differently?

This one seems to make everybody really tired and some are losing their their taste and their

smell again where that had kind of gone away for a while but the good news is it's not that

serious in most people it seems like it's about a week to two weeks of just being horrendously

tired and feeling like they have a cold and a lot of people may think that they have a cold

and then eventually test just because they're curious or because they want to get tired and feeling like they have a cold. And a lot of people may think that they have a cold and

then eventually test just because they're curious or because they want to get the antivirals.

And then they decide to do it. But it is not appearing to be serious. Most folks, this is Dr.

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