their test and the rapid test still worked. jose? allison, thank you for making the complicated easier to understand. i really appreciate that. and jonathan, this variant has created new challenges for the white house. what s keeping the administration from taking more aggressive measures? first of all, the plan that the president unveiled yesterday, his winter covid strategy was in the works before the discovery of the omicron variant. cases were already on the rise because of the delta variant that ripped through the nation all summer and it s disproportionately targeted the unvaccinated. we ve had hot spots particularly among republican voters, republican strongholds, those who are refusing to get the shot. but now this president s plan has taken on a new urgency because of the omicron variant and the belief that it could even be more transmissible, although, as noted, there s a lot we don t know just yet about this and how dangerous it may be. but we know it s here, the cases a