be. we have so many more tools we're developing, and continue to develop that can contain covid and other strains of covid. the new normal is not going to be what it is now, it's going to be ber. >> now, remember, this comes at the end of a period that has seen new cases more than triple since christmas, and hospitalizations climb sharply. and it comes, tend of a week of confusing statements from the cdc and some damage control from the agency. also, clashes, confrontation, a lot of understandable angst over schools re-opening. also, the supreme court hearing oral arguments today on challenges to the administration's vaccine mandate for big businesses, as well as healthcare workers. there is a lot for the week. add to it, six former geysers to the president are now calling for new measures to move toward this or at least plan for this new normal. in a piece published yesterday in the journal of the american medical association, ezekiel emmanuel, see leen gounder, and