track. maybe not for the reasons that he is saying. we re on the right track in the sense if you look up and down the northeastern seaboard you are starting to see the cases peak. i can tell you over the next couple of weeks you will see the natural decline. this is what happens with every cyclical wave. not because of the testing plan and certainly isn t because of the forthcoming booster mandates. this is what happens. the good news is you look at the u.s. data and parallels other countries in the sense that covid hospitalizations with omicron variant or 50% that as we saw with delta. icu admissions are 75% decreased. it is all great news. moving forward it shouldn t be reflexive responses to waves which is what we ve continued to do for the last two years finding ourselves unprepared. they need to be pro-active and like cold and flu season and make sure they are able to handle capacity not just for covid for flu, rsv and