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Hospital beds, staffing shortages of tests, almost everything. its tough for the system to handle this many cases at once but i think if there is a silver lining, its when it comes down fast, its likely to go down even more quickly. and we will -- what we will see is a, um, hopefully not nearly as severe. we will still see -- still see a lot of cases in hospitals. we will still see a lot of deaths but hopefully this will be much milder on a percentage basis than what we have seen with delta. >> ...

Four times, theres always a lag when it comes to number of infections followed by the hospitalizations and then deaths. the county health department of course preparing for that, as is california and the mitigation strategy, again, is to cut it off where people are coming in. thats why theyre setting up here today, katy. >> what about, gary, whats going on in washington, dc? i hear theres new masking mandates, theres also an effort to get people easier access to testing. >> hey there, katy. yeah...

It will help him not only to preach safety and security in american people, but like the political narrative. because a million cases, can you imagine so politically, but why arent their tests? ari fleischer tweeted this. he states have $1 trillion. why dont you have testing capabilities which are marked because they dont know what they are doing. >> and the white house press secretary jen psaki, couple days ago, downplayed the whole testing thing. lets listen and you can react. >> why not just ...

And the white house also sending additional medical personnel to states dealing with surges. 1,000 military service members will become deployable next month to help with surges in various states. youll see the positioning of critical supplies like n-95s in key areas of the country, to send those to hospitals in need. all of this happening at president biden himself becoming a close contact as a mid-level white house staffer, according to the white house, tested positive for coronavirus on monda...

Dramatically the testing capabilities. we want to make between 200,000,500 million tests per month available. and you heard what the president said about getting free testing or reimbursable testing. but we really got to get even more than we are doing right now. we have to flood the system with tests so anybody can have a test available when they want it. were going in that direction rapidly. hopefully well get there soon. >> finally, the question on masks. in new york state, the governor is pu...

Replicates faster and it can reinfect people who already have been infected or are fully vaccinated, and so those numbers are incredibly alarming, and also more alarming is that we only have seven or eight states that have indoor mask mandates. we dont have the testing capabilities that we need to meet this crisis. rapid tests still are not likely available. so i think that is going to compound the situation. >> it really does seem as though there is so much we dont know. we do know, doctor, tha...

Even korean nationals, coming in from the affected areas, they will have to do a ten-day government facility quarantine. up until now theyve been exempt from quarantine or have to quarantine at home. that is going to change from these particular areas. theyve pointed out that there will be some exceptions, some humanitarian exceptions. for example, coming for a funeral they could work with the individual on that. interestingly, the korean version of the cdc is saying that theyre going to try to ...

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