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Other parts of the country are in an omicron firestorm. here are the vulnerables. first of all, i think there is a narrative out there, happy talk that covid omicron is less severe than previous lineages. we don't really know that. part of the reason i say that is both in south africa and the uk, what happened there is omicron dove tailed right on their delta wave. as a consequence, most of those or a lot of those omicron infections were actually reinfections. so it may have given the illusion that it was less severe. but i don't really know that yet. so i am really concerned that now that we ...

Vaccinated. they need to focus on getting vaccinated and boosted. the highest risk population and then from there we need to make sure that we have treatments available if and when they do get sick. carley: conversation almost exclusively on testing yesterday. is there such a thing as overtesting a population even asymptomatic people? >> carley, test something very important. that gives us an idea of what is going on and where the cases are. i can say though he is talking about -- they didn't expect the surge. they didn't expect to need some tests. i don't actually believe that to be true. >> ...

Immunity any longer. here's a hypothetical. if more had gotten on board at the outset when vaccines first became available and all got vaxed, or a much higher percentage got vaxed than actually did, would we be in a much different place today? >> no doubt about it. no doubt about it. we would have prevented the almost 200,000 americans who died in the delta wave. and what we also would have done is gone into this omicron wave with much, much higher levels of population immunity, lower levels of infection, lower levels of hospitalizations and deaths. it's still the ticket out of this pandemic. ...

And it's 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. don't we need these tests yesterday? >> well, we do. and we do have some testing. but what we're 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 nagtionwide. remember, as we have been discussing, the delta wave -- the delta surge really hit a limit...

Discussing the delta wave and surge hit a limited number of states over the last four months. if you are one of those states like here in minnesota or parts of new york you understand the siege situation with what delta has done. but that's -- if you talk to people in california they'll ask you what is going on? what are you concerned about? that is going to change with this particular variant. i think we'll see all 50 states in the soup about the same time so testing needs will go up tremendously. the other area that is going up tremendously is the need for health care workers. we've got 20.2...