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Who dares to be fearless even when her bladder leaks. our softest, smoothest fabric keeping her comfortable, protected, and undeniably sleek. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you. we project in the next week or two or more we are going to start to see the same peak and coming down. how long that takes to get down to the baseline that you would feel comfortable with, that were in an arena that we can actually live with that type of activity is very difficult to predict. the best case...

>> the reason i say we cant predict, we cant predict the timing or the features of the next will be, but confident well have future variants. lets begin to prepare and we know the tools. right, lets make sure theres plenty of tests available. right now, theres still a supply-demand mismatch. too many people cant get a test. lets make sure theres widespread masking available and make sure we meet improvements in indoor ventilation. the indoor air quality is safer, and obviously, lets keep working...

A plan to distribute masks, both of which are coming online. you guys probably should have done that six weeks ago, right? >> well, chris, we had to ramp up both. first, the testing side, its worth remembering that when we got here, there were zero at-home tests, none, didnt exist in the united states of america. so over the course of the 11, first 11 months we were here we built up from zero to 350 million at-home tests in december. now we are taking it to the next step, were continuing to ramp...

Doesnt have to take off the mask. you know, there was a phrase that liberals repeated over and over again at the beginning of the pandemic which was your mask -- your mask protects me, my mask protects you. that i think has become obsolete or thats what the science has shown us, that is quite obsolete because cloth masks do very little to protect omicron and now we have greater access to high-quality surgical quality masks. theres been a number of experts including joseph allen at harvard who ha...

And then, the trust is there and there is not an idea that this is flip-flopping, or mixed messaging. >> you know, dr. wen, you heard dr. fauci say he is urging americans to hang on he says for just a few more weeks. how much better do you think things will look by then? >> i think we could be in for a much better spring and summer because so many people have been infected during this last omicron wave. and also, we have many people who are vaccinated and boosted, and so the overall immune prote...

Came back down. were seeing it in those areas of the countries that had the first surge to begin with. >> we project well start seeing the same peak in coming down. how long that takes, that were in in an arena we can actually live with that time is very typically to predict. it will continue to come down and down. with all the things we have, with all the tools, vaccine, booster, testing, masking, well belt keep it down there. the worth-case scenario is well have another variant that would

That would have prevented a lot of problems for the cdc. you have frontline health care workers or local health department heads who would understand how the policy on the national level is going to play on the local level. getting those input will be so helpful and prevent so much of the confusion thats occurred with the cdc. >> if there is annt a reset ate cdc, lets say, are you concerned that public trust could further be eroded in the cdc, because weve already seen that in the wake of confus...

Aggressively which means even if youre not vaccinated and get covid, youre going to be able to take this pill and not have severe health consequences. so were bringing new tools to the fight everyday, increasing testing, increasing masking, increasing treatments, all these things, you know, expanding vaccinations and i think thats going to make this country more able to deal with whatever covid throws at it. >> lets talk about the presidents domestic agenda, the build back better bill particular...

If you get vaxx, you can go back to normal and just one hundred days of masking. just o hours ago the pentagon. eighty five hundred troops on high alert for possible deployment to eastern europe. now anyone paying attention to bidens presser last weekk heard a e sounds of the war drums beating. the media desperately wants todw get off that raging crime raging covid raging inflation story thats driven biden to another new low in the polls today. harvard harris has them at a pathetic 39%. >> so uk...

Vaccine and about science around this pandemic. its no surprise that republican voters, that trumps followers are so adamantly against masking in states like virginia. theyre so adamantly against getting vaccinated. and, you know, you are hearing from republicans in congress that when they think that they take control, potentially after the midterms, that they arent going to be requiring masks. that they arent going to be telling people when theyre vaccinated. so, look, its -- the pandemic of th...