Despite recent misses on both the top and bottom lines for the third quarter earnings, is where we started our conversation. We see an improvementn europe, but it's not quite bad to where we thought it would be based on a full normalization. And that's basically because there's still a bad lock of people not getting to the doctor,. Not getting to the special list, and therefore not going for those prescriptions that would be expecting they would be going for. So sopasically, we are optimistic about the growth patterns, but the absolute numbers are probably a hundred million below what we were hoping for.
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