on generate 25th, sisi ramped up the the strain surveillance system to begin requesting 750 sussman's a week -- specimens a week. virus isolation and categorization. cdc awarded multiple contracts to rapidly increase the number of specimens sequence per week. going from 6000 per week in january to more than 20,000 per week in april. combined with the sequencing effort of state and local operatories as well as our collaborations with academic institutions, united states is now sequencing nearly 8% of approximately 40 for 2000 covid 19 cases per week. we are on our way to sequencing even higher percentages of cases, which i consider a tremendous, schmidt. cdc has made significant strides in making our genomics surveillance more accessible to the public through our interactive dashboard on our covid data tracker website. this site is updated weekly with the prevalence of variance at the national, regional, and state level. we look forward to continued advancement in this area with the additional investments made by the american rescue plan. this provided $1.7 billion to strengthen and ex