time for your questions now, over to eric bull, is it true that nicotine protects you from cooper 19? 0, a little over a year ago. what's called the nicotine offices made headlines when, when a couple of studies suggested that tobacco's best known, active chemical might help to protect you from getting cobit 19. the hypothesis was based on what the researcher said was a disconnect between the number of smokers coming down with the disease and the number of smokers that should have been coming down with a disease. since then, however, there's evidence from other studies that when adjusted for other factors, smokers likely do get cobit 19 as often as non smokers. and what's clear is that when they do get it, it's more likely to take a serious turn that really shouldn't come as much of a surprise, i mean, pandemic, or no. pandemic smoking is just terrible for your health. and at least the groundwork for many of the co morbidities that are associated very clearly with more severe cove at $900.00 outcomes. there is an interesting aspect to this question. however, that still being pursued,