ah, i'm john driebe. thank you very much for your company. we start the show with a dire warning from the world health organization and europe's pandemic future. the w a joy predicts that over half of all europeans will become infected with the alma kron variant of the corona virus by the end of winter. now this comes as germany reported a new record of more than 80000 new infections in one day. here's what the w i chose, europe director hands konica had to say a bit earlier. 50 of the 50 countries in europe and central asia have no reported cases of ami chrome. it is quickly becoming the dominant virus in western europe. and this know, spreading into the balkans at this rate, the institute for health metrics and evaluation forecasts that more than 50 percent of the population in region will be infected with mcclung. in the next 6 to 8 weeks . let's go to washington d. c and speak to epidemiologist, doctor eric fy golding, doctor, it's great to have you back on t w with her today that more than half of europeans will likely get infected with