hospitalizations or deaths, and the data from other countries is showing that too. why didn't fauci have the idea that maybe you could have a different rule for essential workers than the rest of america? and the fact that the media's not pressing him on this shows that, as i said, they're just accepting what this administration is doing instead of the sort of antagonist if deny antagonistic way you saw with the trump administration where you saw gotcha questions that the trump administration was having. and, of course, where's biden for his questioning? howard: yeah. well, of course, the impact of the virus very much depends on whether you've been vaccinated. but, gillian, is this a case of the media pulling punches? joe biden talked about in the campaign we need more testing. he said it a couple months ago but didn't actually make it happen, and now everybody acknowledges it's kind of too late. the omicron peak may have already passed. >> yeah. richard fowler said in a clip that that we play off the top