make policy decisions under conditions of uncertainty. balancing very different interests. how you think about the way that i laid out that framework, how you're thinking about this moment in a state that's undergoing a very, very severe spike? >> that's true. new york state is undergoing a severe spike. we presume it's omicron spike. we have 60% of our variants now are omicron variant. 67,000 new cases is the number that we have from yesterday. we have that omicron pattern that you showed from the uk, that you described in south africa. since i've been commissioner, we've done two things. one is the governor has declared what's called a mask or vax mandate. and the other is we on december 24th studied for health workers a shortened period of isolation following asymptomatic positive test for covid. our tools are the same ones that