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People to cut him some slack. watch this. >> we need to scale upwa testin. so anyone who needs one can get tested. after ten months of the pandemic, we still dont have enough testing. it is a travesty. >> what is your message to americans are trying to get tested now and who are not able to get tested and are wondering what took so long to ramp up testing?bl >> come on, what took so long? >> im hearing that from people try to get tested now before the holidays. >> it didnt take long at all. what...

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And its going to be hard to handle another surge. >> no slack. you wrote a piece on that really that i think is very moving and people should go look at that. professor osterholm, do you -- the test surge -- you know, 500 million new tests. but not for a few weeks. dont we need these tests yesterday? >> well, we do. and we do have some testing. but what were going to need, i think, over the course of the next two to eight weeks is going to be remarkable. we are going to see this big surge nagtio...

Probably not best to just take the advice and feedback of ceos of hospitals. to be fair they are doing everything they can but many have not been in the emergency department and health care in this country is a business. so no one wants to go on camera saying our emergency rooms and hospitals are over loaded. stay away. talk to the front line providers. what theyll tell you is we are exhausted, burnt out, theres not enough left of us. it is going to be hard to handle another surge. >> no slack. ...

In hospital beds in the state. we normally range around 10,000. and thats where we are today. so if omicron comes through and even if its less severe than the delta strain, just the sheer numbers of people that it sounds like are going to be infected could very, very easily overwhelm us very, very quickly because we have no slack in the system. >> what -- i dont -- i apologize in advance for sort of asking you to go to a dark place, but when you say we could be overwhelmed, overrun, what do you ...

Quickly. because we have no slack [inaudible] >> i apologize in advance to ask you to go to a dark place, but when you say we can be overwhelmed, overrun, what do you mean? what does that mean in practical terms? >> i dont know. rachel, i dont know what that would imply. it makes my heart race to think what that could imply. it could look like people dying because we dont have enough places to put them. and then just suffocating alone. it means putting people in ambulance space, which is happeni...

Overwhelm us very, very quickly because we have no slack in the system. >> what -- i dont -- i apologize in advance for sort of asking you to go to a dark place, but when you say we could be overwhelmed, overrun, what do you mean? what does that mean in practical terms? >> i dont know. rachel, i dont know what that would look like. i mean, you know, i -- i -- it makes my heart race to think about what that could look like. it could look like people dying because we dont have enough places to put...

Places in the country where they dont have as much capacity. one of their concerns going forward is that health care workers, hospital employees, could get infected. look, even if its not with a serious infection, it would mean theyre offline for a few days, whether it be ten days or maybe a shorter period of time. so how much slack do you have in terms of your health care worker capacity? >> well, obviously, thats always a concern when youre in this business. we have right now about 300 workers...

The healthy snack becomes your default. you can also try something called temptation bundling. that means you pair something you love with something less fun. getting ice cream? yes. going on a long walk to get some instead of keeping it in the house, thats temptation bundling. finally, give yourself an emergency reserve. say your goal is to work out every day for a month but you miss a day. that might make you feel like you failed and you give up. instead say youre allowed to miss some days, ma...

Thin air called apple. >> since the apple computer company was founded five years ago, its sales have skyrocketed from $100,000 to more than $100 million. with the most popular typewriter-sized computer on the market today. steven jobs is 26 years old and he sees his computers future as the future of mankind. >> how many calculators do you own? >> two, maybe. >> right. you use the automatic bank telling machines? >> sure. >> so life is already seducing you into learning this stuff. its not going...