disease with omicron than you might with other variants. that said, we may have many, many more cases, and so we may still very well see a lot of severe disease in the hospital. so, you know, i want to project optimism and i want to be cautious in doing so. dr. walensky, mike barnicle is here with a question for you. mike? doctor, you know parts of the country is in fear of the virus omicron, whatever, frozen in fear. but no group of people in this country, i would submit, are more fearful of the virus than parents of school-age children who fear that the schools will be shutdown. so in some cases, some cities have said, well, if a child comes up positive for the virus, that child will be removed and the rest of the class will be tested, but we won t shutdown the schools. so my question to you is given the mess that is testing in this
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infrastructure with enormous implications for america s economic future. that alone is pretty good work. if he can retool the build back better act to make it permanent as the affordable care act is rather than piecing together a hodgepodge of temporary programs, it, too, may be able to stand the test of time and a decade from now be even more popular than it is today. that s a piece from david axelrod. so, mike barnicle, there is a big if in there. if he can get this through congress, if he can revitalize the build back better act and somehow get joe manchin on board who just two weeks ago said he is a no. obviously joe biden has passed a ton of consequential legislation his first year in office. still as we round the corner to a new year, wants somehow 134 way to get this even bigger package through. yeah, i think it s easy to misread the president at this moment in time the past few weeks, especially with regard to