university presented in poland, murray, or gunshot. she's head of the department of infectious diseases at the university of zillow. now go to a warm welcome to each of you on a lease. i'm going to start with you. how different, if at all, is this scenario that we're seeing in europe compared to the scenarios we saw in the early days of the pandemic? the situation is similar, but also quite different. last year we, there was a rapid upset already starting in october at the time when nobody was vaccinated this, this time around, many has been vaccinated, not enough. but what we now see is also we have a high number of infections. the number of deaths are lower than last year with the same number of infections. so the good news is we have magazines, and these vaccines do prevent death and severe disease. these things do not prevent as successfully though mild infection, so you may still go to mild infection and a message is you are protected against severe disease and death. lawrence, is this just about low vaccination rates linked to higher levels of infection or is there a wider question to this? you? i think is a p