because of covid infection themselves, we re going to get in many places to the point of where we will be considering i think having health care workers if they are mildly ill or asymptomatic but infected because having someone there is likely to be a much safer situation than having no one there. dr. jha, as we see cases of omicron exploding in this country, are you optimistic this variant will prove to be less severe resulting in fewer hospitalizations and god willing fewer deaths? i m hopeful that that will help. we now have several studies that suggest it may be somewhat milder. but here is the key issue, wolf. if we have a massive number of infections, it is still going to cause real strains to our health care system. and it will almost surely be pretty mild for those vaccinated and boosted. but for unvaccinated people, i m not sure that the somewhat milder version is going to help out that much.