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Fauci says he expects things to get better in january, but what happens until then? >> yeah, this is -- this is not where we should be two years into this pandemic. you know, look, i think the administration undervalued testing for much of 2021. they relied heavily on vaccinations, which of course are terrific and really, really important. but we did not build up the testing infrastructure we needed to manage this winter surge. and that means the next few weeks will be really tough and frustrating and rightly so for americans. the key issue is, can we finally once and for all get it fixed once...

The first is this is an importance of getting quick testing. of course, our testing infrastructure is crumbling right now in the face of omicron, but a rapid test may be best so you can get treatment. the second thing to know, although this has been approved, it's not going to be widely available right away. before you come into the er or go to your doctor's office expecting to get a prescription, i would try to give them a call first. i expect that this is going to be rolled out across the country. it may be limited in access for a period of time. the third thing to know is, again, this does ...

Inconceivable. medical contributor dr. uché blackstock is the founder and ceo of advancing health equity. dr. blackstock, thank you so much for being here. i'm desperate to know what you want to hear from the president on tuesday. >> alicia, i need the president to be bold and courageous and innovative this tuesday. we heard so much about a very vaccine-centric strategy, and we need a plan that will involve layered mitigation, which we talk about so much. we need him to use his bully pulpit to encourage all states to have indoor mask mandates. we need him to make rapid testing even more acces...

On the virus in a way we didn't back in march of 2020. we have surveillance, we now have testing infrastructure, rapid tests, yes, they should be free, all new york city will mail out a million. we also got pcr tests, all of these are getting overwhelmed as happens in an outbreak. we do have testing capacity that gives us some sense of what's going on. we also have quality masks. we know how to take steps to keep ourselves safe, masking in big indoor settings for instance, at-home rapid tests if you can get them before but to an event. also, another really important difference between now and ...

Testing even more accessible to people so they don't have to go through their insurance companies. we need him to talk about how he's going to make the testing infrastructure more robust. we also need to hear how he's going to set ventilation and air infiltration standards for businesses and schools and how he's going to close the gap in terms of vaccination rates because we're still seeing the same inequities we saw at the beginning of the vaccine rollout. we're now seeing with boosters in terms of racial inequities and socioeconomic equities and how we're going to keep workplaces safe as wel...