I'm not a public health doctor, but what we have seen and what has been reported back to us is that things like the RSV virus were appearing earlier in the season than expected. We've also seen that the uptick in flu infections was also earlier than expected, and the impact that has is called “demand shift”, so at the time when the industry was trying to rebuild inventories during the summer in anticipation of the flu season, inventories are being drained, and that's what landed us in this position.
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