today, but they postponed their activities because of the severe weather here in washington. but what we're talking about here is the on site testing that takes place every day in the capitol. there's free testing available to anyone who works at the capitol. that includes staff, members, even those of us in the press corps, and what they have noticed, the attending physician is saying prior to this week, the positivity rate was less than 1%, and then it jumped to more than 13%, and he largely blamed the omicron variant for the sharp rise in the number of positive cases. keep in mind, victor, and alisyn, there's hardly been anybody in the capitol for the past three weeks because of the holidays. there isn't expected to be a huge increase in the number of people until later in the week when they gather for events surrounding the one-year anniversary of january 6th, and then when they return to session next week. still, there's been a huge concern about the increase in these positive cases. one of the things the capitol physician is recommending is we all use these, these n95 masks