lindsay. happy sunday to you. in your intro you were talking about how the impact on professional sports league, and as a diehard hockey fan i was anticipating the game last night when it was canceled because so many players on both teams were placed on covid protocol. same thing is happening in the nba and nfl. what is happening in professional sports leagues is what is happening in the communities, 1,300 deaths per day, and the cdc predicts omicron will surpass delta in a number of weeks. what we want to hear from our federal leadership is vaccines and boosters specifically are going to be critical in helping us contain the pandemic. masking when indoors is going to be really critical. really regular testing,
traced to big sporting events. that s not my concern. my bigger concern would be based on how case numbers and hospitalizations are looking is people gathering indoors around the country for any reason, including super bowl parties, particularly if not everybody there is boosted or you re not using rapid tests right before you gather. those are both ways to keep people safe, but if one or both of those is not true, there could be some danger there. zpr and we know around 95% of nfl players are vaccinated. certainly is concerning. zachary benny, thanks for being here. absolutely, thank you. omicron also disrupting things right here at 30 rock, where saturday night live put on a bare bones show. limited crew, no audience. instead of their big christmas episode, tina hanks, paul rudd, and tina fey tossed to sketches taped earlier in the show as well as some old classics. thank you, i m tom hanks.