2,500 people there. the precautions they took are pretty good precautions but i think what jonathan karl s case and there s going to be a lot of others will teach us, is that what you do after the event is also important. so testing before, proof of vaccination before, important. testing after, because now, you know, he has the opportunity to not continue to spread the virus to other people. there s clearly going to be other people who will have tested positive in that room, but in terms of actually looking at the pandemic going forward, testing afterward really important. john, i will just say everyone wants to have events like this again, but thinking about ventilation in a room like that, trying to make the inside environment as close to the outside environment as possible, that s going to be key. that s going to be something we will be talking about for years if not decades to come in terms of living with these viruses. sanjay, what do we know about new variants of comicron? firs
Variant, but that s still a major problem in the u.s. how concerning is that? it s not just a problem, it is a problem that has gotten considerably worse over the last couple of months as the number of those large mass testing centers have shut down. so what i m telling folks is there are two things you can do. the first is if you are symptomatic, you can use one of those rapid abntigen tests that can be bought at any drugstore. after that, pharmacies, places like cvs and walgreens are often the best place to go to get a pcr. the other part is trying to find out whether or not what you have is regular covid or comicron. they can be a quick and dirty test for the health department and you may never find the variant you have. isolate if god forbid you have a positive test.