Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to all the witnesses.
Ms. Thompson, my question is a little bit along the same vein. Earlier in your testimony, you were talking about how, under alpha and delta, in terms of the transmission of the virus, there were studies to show that it was less so with those who were vaccinated, but then you said that things changed with omicron.
As we know, omicron became the variant that was probably dominate in and around December and January. Was the interest in keeping the federal vaccine mandates for travel in place from January onwards mostly about trying to get more people vaccinated?