effectively to this variant as well. to the booster. so we don t know yet. so i say that not just to those who are sort of pushing it off, but also to those who are catastrophe-izing. we should be aggressive and do everything we could do to keep it at a minimum in this country. keep the businesses open. keep schools open. we got to do the smart things to do that. but let s not catastrophe-ize it yet. let s get the facts and follow the medicine and let s be best thing people could do is get vaccinated if they haven t. and that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now. hey there, i m stephanie ruhle live at msnbc headquarters here in new york city.