they were supposed to be taking at least one senate vote today, but then they all got slid into tomorrow because of the storm. that said, this afternoon the capitol physician the doctor for the house in the senate sent a sobering detailed letter to the democratic and republican leaders of the senate. telling them that you know, regardless of the stall, senators ought to be staying home now anyway. apparently, the covid testing sites they have set up at the u.s. capitol, the positivity rate, the rate at which tests that are coming back positive, it had been under 1%, until recently, until the omicron wave of the virus started to hit in d.c.. the capital physician advised senators today that as of right now, the positivity rate at that testing that has gone from under 1% to over 13%. he described the number of covid cases on capitol hill