joshua sharfstein, should jon take the day off? dr.n: the first thing is to thank you for doing it. it is really important for people to get vaccinated when they can. it is absently true if it is the second shot, they are more likely to have symptoms the next day. have that as an option tomorrow, it is not a bad idea. they will bounce back quickly and be sharp on the air as ever. tom: i think the soccer talk -- jon: i will be off tomorrow. lisa: i will be off wednesday. just to bring this back on the rails, do women have a more severe reaction than men? dr. sharfstein: that might be the case, but i do not know that for sure. there is a wide range of responses. some people have a little bit of soreness in their arm, some people feel under the weather for a day or so. everybody is back and ready to go the next day. tom: we have seen a lot of misinformation, different politics. what is the messaging you require right now from professionals? what did they do next to calm this nation? dr. sharfstein: this is a difficult time because we are

joshua sharfstein there of johns hopkins.till ahead, e-sports giant veloce becomes the first to acquire a real-life sporting franchise ahead os planned public offering r. e-sports could be olympic. that is something to wrap your head around. almost as difficult to understand as nft's. ceo rupert svendsen-cook joins us to talk about this burgeoning phenomenon hear -- phenomenon. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: this is bloomberg markets. i am matt miller. traditional sports came to a halt in 2020. the e-sports industry saw explosive growth. fast forward to now. one of the leading e-sports companies, veloce, launching a funding round to continue expansion ahead of its public offering and expanding into physical sports. ceo rupert spence and -- ceo rupert svendsen-cook joins from london to talk about this. let's talk first about the physical foray. tell us about extreme e-sports. rupert: extreme e is a brand-new electric racing series. we had our first race three weeks ago in saudi arabia. they race in parts of the planet affected by

joshua sharfstein joins us. thank you so much for joining us. go to the simple thing we have learned, which is cases are flat or even increase, at some point, increased deaths follow on. if we have cases where they are and deaths doing pretty well now where they are, what does it mean for summer with the dynamic between those two events? dr. sharfstein: we know that, in some parts of the country, we are not just seeing cases go up but also seeing hospitalizations, and i think that is very likely going to be correlated with deaths. i think hospitalizations is in between those two things. it is possible because the more seriously at risk people are getting vaccinated, there will not be quite the association between cases and deaths we saw earlier in the pandemic, but if hospitalizations are rising, i think it is a fair bet we see deaths rising too. tom: are we prolonging pandemic agony by not having strict lockdowns? dr. sharfstein: i think if they were more intentioned towards the critical aspect of disease control here in the united states, we w

tom: joshua sharfstein of johns hopkins. right now, i want to get right to this. futures up 21.tion is so important. robert murphy of northwestern, truly expert in the history and dynamics of infectious diseases, joins us this morning. both you and i were focused on michigan. i want you to go over the strange v-word, v irulence, and what we know of what is coming. robert: virulence is how effective it is in killing the host it is infecting. this has increased with this variant and the p1 variant in brazil. that variant somehow got up in canada, and british columbia, and they had to shut it down because of that. very difficult to deal with, as you can see what is going on in brazil right now, which is a catastrophe. tom: how do you deal with the viral and's -- with the viral and's -- with the virulence? robert: it is probably the reason we are having this wave, one of the main reasons we are having this wave, in that when we had these troughs where the case numbers have gone down, they have always plateaued. there's always been plenty of virus replicating before we have the next