number of hospitalizations. cases and identification of cases remains important and testing is linked to that. and we have tools. if you get tested, you have access to medical treatments. that's why it's equally important that people continue to get tested. >> and between the testing shortages, the confusing guidance from the cdc, is there a plan to get the federal covid response back on track? >> a lot of public health experts, former public health policy makers are saying now that there needs to be an urgent messaging reset to address some of this confusion that is going on out there. and just the general feeling that the message coming from the white house and the president isn't matching what people are seeing in their everyday lives. when they are seeing schools close, despite the president saying that they should be open. when they're seeing leaders, national figures wearing n-95 masks, yet the cdc is still saying that a cloth mask or a surgical mask is okay. and of course, this broader testing issue, where officials