contain and control spread in congregate environments, such as school. fortunately now, schools are mostly getting out for the holiday break, but certainly, we need to plan for what s going to happen in january, when schools go back in session. yeah, many of those dele decisions are made at the local or state level, but i want to look nationally here. the white house press secretary tweeted that we are prepared for the rise in case levels and potus will detail how he will respond to this challenge. so president biden will be giving an omicron-focused speech this tuesday. so what are you hoping to hear from him, and what concrete steps are you hoping he will take at a national level? right. well, i don t share that optimism that we re prepared, but i think there are some steps that we can take. and again, first of all, doing everything we can to increase vaccination, ramping up non-pharmaceutical interventions, including using all of the levers that we ha