sign actually. but it is too soon to know for sure. something that we all hope for. the cdc shortened the isolation period for health care workers from ten days to seven days so long as they test negative and they are asymptomatic. what do you think of that move and do you think that it should be expanded to more groups of people, maybe even everyone? well, i think that it was necessary because it is really important to protect health care delivery in our country going forward over the coming weeks as the surge increases. so doing that, putting more health care workers back to work is great. i don t see it for the general population necessarily. i don t think that that will be necessary. and i doubt very much that it will be implemented for the rest of us. but certainly for health care workers, it is a good idea. doctor, put into perspective for us where we are in the fight this christmas as opposed to where we were a year ago. i mean, now we have widespread vaccines, we have the