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Are hearing about testing shortages, what can you tell us?— what can you tell us? they are 'ust overwhelmed �* what can you tell us? they are 'ust overwhelmed because i what can you tell us? they are 'ust overwhelmed because this i what can you tell us? they are just l overwhelmed because this happened within the weekend, from december 13-18 within the weekend, from december 13—18 we are seeing a 73% of all cases being omicron, it is a densely packed city, lots of people don't have symptoms or have mild symptoms so there is a search of testing and also testing because people want to get ...

This address. hey had some important messages. whether you've been infected before or had two vaccines, with omicron, it's important to be vaccinated and get the third dose. a previous infection and two doses is about 20% protective of getting covid. very important for that to happen. everything else is really i think a drop in the bucket. 500 million tests over how many months. is that going to be done? there's no triage who should get the tests? we should clearly get them to the most needed. at the end of the trump administration, we did 180 million free tests. the only reason why we're in s...

People the care they need. >> look, my son, we woke up, we were convinced he had covid, all the symptoms, took him in, tested positive for flu. was sick. but it was flu, not covid. so i'm sure you're seeing a lot of that right now. do you have enough tests? how close are you to running out of the materials you need to meet this testing demand? >> right. so we don't have testing shortages right now. we're part of the northwell health system. we have, like i said, four different testing modalities in our centers. and we have the backup northwell laboratory, a reference laboratory, and they can t...

Itself, for a respiratory infection, you always increase the risk even when you have situations like mask wearing on a plane with good filtration. on the plane itself it is really quite safe, particularly if you're vaccinated and boosted. but in other settings it may not be so safe, particularly one you mentioned yourself, when there is no physical distancing and some people are not wearing masks. >> i want to ask you about testing. the testing shortages are profound even for people who can pay for it and go commercially, they're just not available. the drugstores don't have them. the commerci...

Us, especially here in new york, it is making up at least 70% of coronavirus cases in the us. imilli coronavirus cases in the us. with cases so high _ coronavirus cases in the us. with cases so high in _ coronavirus cases in the us. with cases so high in new _ coronavirus cases in the us. with cases so high in new york, our hospitals concerned they will not be able to cope? hospitals concerned they will not be able to cape?— hospitals concerned they will not be able to cope? absolutely, since last week we had _ able to cope? absolutely, since last week we had seen _ able to cope? absolutely,...