a fantastic job of surveillance testing, and the rest of the cup truckers we're driving a car down a dark road with the headlights off while looking in the rear view mirror. what we need is a well articulated long strategy. we can't keep chasing variants forever. >> is that correct, the surveillance testing point in the sense that if this is the stress on the health care system now and we don't fully understand, both really the current delta cries and the omicron growth that this system could be knocked over? >> well, i think we have to be a little bit careful here in terms of ascribing what we can do about this surge and not. number one, we have to understand what's happening with delta is already baked into the system. the next three weeks, the people who winfected with delta that will become hospitalized and seriously ill and die is already there, but i think over the course of the next two to four weeks you're going to see a war between omicron and delta deciding who is going to be the king of the viral hill, and i do believe that omicron will