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Needs them to get them, and why we need to segment the population here. we are seeing spikes that was highly anticipated. we knew this virus was going to mutate. yet this administration came in with all the tools, all the tools were handed to it, and yet, we dont -- we don't have enough. >> i want to call up the white house and why they decide not to reinvest in testing. it was handed to them when they took office. they decided not to double down on testing which is why we have a testing shortage for the delta wave in the summer and clearly seeing it now. same goes with the oral outpatient med...

Symptomatic and needed medical care. before you get testing before you gather, it should be at home rapid tests if you can get your hands on them. they are in short supply. it is nowhere it was near ago. it was the same during the delta wave during the summer. people are testing more than ever. we're seeing a lot more asymptomatic cases and mild cases. if you're going to be in a home setting with a dinner party or being with people outside the household you may want to test to decrease the risk of transmission. the truth doing a lot more testing you are finding more cases. when you're positive...

Explain, as a scientist, is what will the scenario have been if puerto rico didn't have the vaccination rates that it has right now? and we can do calculations of that, because we have the positivity cases, both for the vaccinated population and the unvaccinated population, and i can right now? i can tell you it would be twice as bad as they are right now if we had the population of puerto rico not vaccinated. >> talk to me about the hospitalizations. how is the health system holding up? >> it's holding up much better. for example, for the delta wave, for the alpha wave, it's about four times ...

This is a shark that chose covid hospitalizations in the u.s.. this is for people who end up in the hot -- you can see the first big bump. that is where we hit our peak for the covid hospitalizations in the u.s. of january last year. the second big bump, that was the delta wave that field hospitals last fall. but now look at the spike on the right side of your screen. that is where covid hospitalizations are right now. more people being admitted to the hospital for covid right now than at any other time in the pandemic. and it is probably going to get worse before it gets better. right now the...

Essentially the doctor for the house and the senate, advising a maximal telework posture for congress. the senate is supposed to be in session this week. we will see how that plays out. and we'll have more a little later on this hour as to what's going on with hospitalization numbers. we have seen over the past couple of weeks as case numbers have just gone off the charts. but infectious disease experts, including dr. anthony fauci, have been telling us now that we ought to be watching the hospitalization numbers much more closely than we're watching the case numbers. if we want to get a sense...