and obviously, everyone, you heard me go through these recommendations. so, doctor, i i know that that you know, you re you all took a lot of time with this. published the new guidance, which is i will read it again supportive of keeping schools open even in times of significant community transmission. um you, with your medical expertise, go farther than the cdc. you would allow exposed but asymptomatic children and staff to continue no school. you put a lot of thought into this, right? you didn t do this lightrly. yeah, it s not just me. i think thrs a consensus statement from the headership at children s hospital of philadelphia. our centers, as well as clinical teams have been following the emergence of the omicron variant and covid-19 situation now for two years and we know there is a lot of anxiety out there as we have a swift-moving parentor
mixed picture for this administration. why? well, i think in some ways it s because the honeymoon period for the biden administration is over. and it sort of split the year into the first and the second half, where there was this sense of stability that joe biden brought back to washington after the four years of the trump administration, and, you know, with the drive to increase vaccinations against covid-19, the covid relief package that he signed into law, the democrats passed earlier this year. there was a sense that people were starting to get their lives back. things took a turn when you had the chaotic exit from afghanistan, the delta surge happened, his ratings began to fall and now he s closing out the year with this second wave with the omicron variant and covid, which was the issue dominating when he took office, is also center stage at the end of his first year in office. and so although he has gotten