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In terms of covid. if it hits again, another variant hits again, will we have learned to right lessons to move forward? you have hit it on the nail. i am often asked, when is the supply chain going to calm down? when will things improve? i say, we are heading in the right direction, but we still of the pandemic existing, and while we still have locked out in certain areas, flairups in certain areas, leading to labour shortages or complete closing down of factories in receiving areas, then that is going to mean problems will continue to exist. we need to get over that. secondly, we have had thi...

To get it, in part because it's highly likely that the surge will last a month or so and then come back down. it happened in south africa, it happened in london, it's beginning to peak in new york, washington and boston. so it's not a matter of being careful forever. i think we're going to find ourselves in a very good place in february but for the next few weeks, yes, there's a ton of virus around, you'll be exposed to it. but if you're wearing an n95 and being careful, i don't think it's inevitable you'll get it and i think some of the messages that have come out are causing people to say wh...

>> the reason i say we can't predict, we can't predict the timing or the features of the next will be, but confident we'll have future variants. let's begin to prepare and we know the tools. right, let's make sure there's plenty of tests available. right now, there's still a supply-demand mismatch. too many people can't get a test. let's make sure there's widespread masking available and make sure we meet improvements in indoor ventilation. the indoor air quality is safer, and obviously, let's keep working on improving both therapeutics and vaccines and make sure there's plenty of them. so whe...

Fully vaccinate and boosted. >> let's keep working on improving therapeutics and vaccines and make sure there's plenty of them so whenever the next variant hits, we'll be ready, we won't have to shut down schools or our lives. >> reporter: there's now a sub variant of omicron but experts say it is not yet cause for alarm. >> we're keeping a close eye on it. it looks a bit more transmissible but not necessarily more severe. >> reporter: sadly, some 2,200 americans are still losing their lives to covid daily. thankfully, hospitalizations are lower than a week ago but it remains an isolating dise...

Have received at least one dose of the covid vaccine compared to 73% in november when vaccination rate has stagnated. and more proof of how well vaccines work. according to the cdc, unvaccinated seniors were 52 times more likely to be hospitalized with covid in december, than seniors who were fully vaccinated and boosted. >> let's keep working on reporting with therapeutics and vaccines and make sure there's plenty of them. so whenever the next variant hits, we'll have-s be ready, we won't have to shut down our lives and schools. >> reporter: there is a subvariant of covid. >> we're keeping a ...