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To end, no doubt. hopefully they keep in mind how awful it has been, so we take the reasonably modest measures that are required to reduce the chance of it happening again. which are spending on practice, on modelling, on proper active preparedness. yes, practice would be key, and having a dedicated team that helps manage that practice and makes sure that every little outbreak gets a quick investigation, including genetic sequencing, so we can understand, is this a respiratory virus that is threatening to become another covid? covid itself, the thing you just hinted at, i think you are saying ...

So we take the reasonably modest measures that are required to reduce the chance of it happening again. which are spending on practice, on modelling, on proper active preparedness. yes, practice would be key, and having a dedicated team that helps manage that practice and makes sure that every little outbreak gets a quick investigation, including genetic sequencing, so we can understand, is this a respiratory virus that is threatening to become another covid? covid itself, the thing you just hinted at, i think you are saying it is possible that the worst is even yet to come if we get a new, mo...

Genetic sequencing that the pcr test enables providers and scientists to do. that's the only distinction right now at the moment. >> and doctor, i just want your thoughts on what yasmin was talking about, about really the crisis that we're seeing in our health care system and hospitals and nurses. how real is that? >> well, it's real for -- it's real for us as health care workers, and it's very, very real for americans, all americans, vaccinated or unvaccinated. you know, we talk a lot about, you know, hospital bed capacity, icu capacity in particular, is one really, really important metric to...

Cases a date down to around five -- 600,000 which is still a lot. but in some states receive and increase the number of cases and deaths. that means we need to continue to practice or safety measures entered mitigation measures which of course starts off with making sure that you are vaccinated, where your mask indoors in public crowded areas. get tested and if you're sick stay home. arthel: basically don't let your guard down, now's not the time. how do you think the federal government or the white house can plan ahead? >> that is a great question. i'm a huge proponent of prevention. we can d...

Omicron sub variant is growing at a steady pace and has been since about february when it represented 1% of all variants in circulation. today according to cdc data the highly contagious variant accounts for more than a third of all infections that have been sampled for genetic sequencing. american's top public health officials the u.s. can avoid infection through immune protections from vaccines and the wave that hit us this winter. >> these upticks reflect minor increases from very low levels to still very low levels. sustained trends over time can give us an early indication of covid-19 inf...