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We're in a viral blizzard right now. those on the east coast are understanding what a snow blizzard is. when a blizzard happens everything begins to shut down. what we're concerned about in the health care setting is the inability to deliver good care. 10 or 20% or more of the health care workers themselves are home infected. and the medical supplies we need are not coming forth as we need them. we're hearing now of pharmacies that are actually saying, you know, we postpone you're getting your drugs for three to five days because we don't have enough people to fill the prescriptions. that's th...

People can't find at-home rapid tests, pcr texts can take several days to get results. what do you think needs to happen to get testing to a better place? >> well first of all, what we were discussing in our articles is not for the immediate time. it is a strategic plan for three to 12 months. but maetdly, we created the testing infrastructure and then when the vaccines came along, everyone thought, well, we're past this and let it go away. we need to re-create a testing infrastructure. much more pcr testing, much more at-home testing, and a much more coherent strategy for what happens when so...

Happen is at the gym, we will have much better ventilation than they generally have now. they'll have air filters, they will have hepa filters and by the way, the prevalence of covid in the community will be much lower. >> obviously, testing has been a major issue, particularly during this omicron surge. people can't find at-home rapid tests, pcr texts can take several days to get results. what do you think needs to happen to get testing to a better place? >> well first of all, what we were discussing in our articles is not for the immediate time. it is a strategic plan for three to 12 months....

Tests. right before christmas, at the beginning of the huge omicron surge of covid, the administration announced plans to buy a half billion, 500 million, home testing kits, at home rapid test kits, kits that could be covered to homes for free. that came as americans were waiting for hours in line. waiting in the cold for hours in line trying to get any tests they could find that would tell them whether or not they had the virus. well, the biden administration finalized the first contracts for those at-home tests about a week ago but it wasn't for 500 million tests. they doubled the order. pla...

Immunity anyone thad with previous infection, we were a naive population. one of the reason we can see the cases go up right now with omicron is because we have eyes on the virus in a way we didn't back in march of 2020. we have surveillance because we now have testing infrastructure in place. we have rapid tests. yes, they should be free, and available to all. new york city is going to mail out, i think, about a million but we've got pcr tests. all of these are getting overwhelmed as happens in an outbreak but we have testing capacity that gives us a sense of what's going on. we have quality ...