Close attention. let s see where the next few months ago. i m concerned and we re going to watch the numbers. at this point, i am confident we re going to get through this without disruption. all right. let s bring in professor of emergency medicine an associate dean of public health at brown university, doctor meghan ranny. doctor, ranny, what does he mean? the doctor is planning the best way to proceed? it is aligned with the cdc plan and what we are seeing across the country and globe. thanks to vaccines, boosters, and the original omicron surge, as well as increased availability of treatment, where we are today is so different from where we were in january. much less last fall or last spring. right now case numbers matter, but what matters so much more are hospitalizations and deaths. in my own state of rhode island, we have seen a surge in case numbers for weeks now. but our hospitalization numbers