vaccinated by december 15th, tomorrow. did this surge of over 900 cases at cornell university come as a surprise to you? >> i think we certainly expected additional cases as we moved through the holiday season, and we've begun to relax public health guidance over the last several months. but certainly the volume of cases was something that came a bit unexpected. >> the university declared a covid-19 omicron red alert. please tell me what that means, sir. >> so the university made decisions about moving their finals, their remaining finals to remote status, and they've canceled some on-campus events. really that was driven by a sampling of test results from the students that were screened and had the unique identifier related to omicron that will now be fully sequenced. we do believe a large portion of these student cases will ultimately result as the omicron variant. >> okay. so let me read part of the