announcing that she will be reinstating the indoor mask mandate. that will run from december 28th through january 31st, wolf. >> amara, thank you. amara walker reporting for us. let's get more on all of this. joining us, dr. peter hosatez. also the dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor school of medicine. he's the author of "preventing the next pandemic." also dr. zeke emanuel, vice provost of global initiatives at the university of pennsylvania and the author of "which country has the world's best health care?" thanks to both of you for joining us. dr. hotez, new york state seeing this threefold increase in covid cases in just one week. and nationwide, cases, hospitalizations are rising. we haven't even seen the full impact of omicron yet. so how bad could this get? >> well, the reason it's going to get bad, wolf, is not only because of delta and the high