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Hospital beds, staffing shortages of tests, almost everything. it's tough for the system to handle this many cases at once but i think if there is a silver lining, it's when it comes down fast, it's likely to go down even more quickly. and we will -- what we will see is a, um, hopefully not nearly as severe. we will still see -- still see a lot of cases in hospitals. we will still see a lot of deaths but hopefully this will be much milder on a percentage basis than what we have seen with delta. >> let's hope. and as you know, president biden is revoking travel restrictions on southern african ...

Four times, there's always a lag when it comes to number of infections followed by the hospitalizations and then deaths. the county health department of course preparing for that, as is california and the mitigation strategy, again, is to cut it off where people are coming in. that's why they're setting up here today, katy. >> what about, gary, what's going on in washington, dc? i hear there's new masking mandates, there's also an effort to get people easier access to testing. >> hey there, katy. yeah, there's been a 350% increase in positive cases over the past two weeks here in dc. 4,000 cas...

It will help him not only to preach safety and security in american people, but like the political narrative. because a million cases, can you imagine so politically, but why aren't their tests? ari fleischer tweeted this. he states have $1 trillion. why don't you have testing capabilities which are marked because they don't know what they are doing. >> and the white house press secretary jen psaki, couple days ago, downplayed the whole testing thing. let's listen and you can react. >> why not just make them free and give them out and have them available everywhere? >> should we just send went...

And the white house also sending additional medical personnel to states dealing with surges. 1,000 military service members will become deployable next month to help with surges in various states. you'll see the positioning of critical supplies like n-95s in key areas of the country, to send those to hospitals in need. all of this happening at president biden himself becoming a close contact as a mid-level white house staffer, according to the white house, tested positive for coronavirus on monday. president biden also got a coronavirus test on monday and tested negative through a pcr test. we...

Dramatically the testing capabilities. we want to make between 200,000,500 million tests per month available. and you heard what the president said about getting free testing or reimbursable testing. but we really got to get even more than we are doing right now. we have to flood the system with tests so anybody can have a test available when they want it. we're going in that direction rapidly. hopefully we'll get there soon. >> finally, the question on masks. in new york state, the governor is put into place a mask ordinance for certain institutions outside, you know, in areas that don't requ...