first to thank you very much for talking with dr. pito chin, hong talking to us from san francisco. thanks so much jerry. well, as he all the crown variant races across the globe policy makers here in germany are plotting their next steps to attack the fresh way. a range of measures are on the table including limiting social contacts, even for those fully vaccinated or recovered from covet 19 preparing for alma chron, germany is rushing to get a vaccine booster shot to its critical workers, like these firefighters and hamburg before the new cove at 19 variant becomes dominant here, while daily cases are sinking across the country. experts more in the dreaded wave could arrive just after christmas. info and their smell is excellent and it's a rapid exponential increase. i talked about if you take the conservative estimate that cases double every 3 days, or what scientists and britain are recording every 2 days. and if you only need a pocket calculator to see that that's extremely fast, is bombs and mitchell. while vaccines are the 1st line of defense, germany's government is preparin