the world. in terms of information sharing, i guess looking at the glass half full, are we looking at a better place than we were in 2020 when we had president trump defending the w.h.o. and using terms like kung flu and all the other various things that he did? we are not anywhere near march 2020 anymore. w we are in a very different place for a couple reasons. one being there is fabulous information sharing. the south african doctor detected this various that may be spreading to other parts of the world as well. we didn t have that kind of work in march 2020. then we have all the testing of the variants we didn t have. so no matter what we learn about omicron, it will not set us back to 2020. and this travel ban begins at midnight eastern time here in the u.s. in your new york times essay, you write, this will slow the variant into the united states