think there is any correlation but that is the psychology of sort of your three and hearings folks like dr. osterholm. he says, over the next weeks we are going see the number of cases in this country rise so dramatically that we will have a hard timekeeping everyday life operating. dr. patel, what are you forecasting? what should we be prepared for? do you see any silver lining? i will start with the silver lining. i have given up forecasting when i had political lives in the past. me too. i do think dr. osterholm is correct, we are going to see numbers increase. i want to put a silver lining on that. we need to shift from sheer numbers to what you started off looking at, what are the percentages of people who are vaccinated versus unvaccinated. long haul stms symptoms, less of those in people who are vaccinated and boosted. that means something. the silver lining is that we are learning more.
way of saying how do we get case reports from the ground to some central location so that we can tell you what s going on, that s like trying to build a sky scraper. you can t do that overnight. we will build this and it s critical it gets done as soon as possible but it won t be overnight. martha: yeah. i think a lot of people are frustrated by that. sounds like you are, too. it cost $15 to do operation warp speed. we have four times that in the hopper in terms of money spent by these health agencies, dr. osterholm, thank you for being here. good to see you. thank you. martha: the white house saying moments ago that they have finalized a contract with a test manufacturer as part of a promise to deliver a half billion tests to americans that want them. more contracts are needed.
public-private relationship to get more treatment and more vaccines online. and by the way there is more treatment that pfizer is producing right now pill cure covid that the fda is slow-rolling. they could be doing more along the lines of the trump administration did but they didn t. and we should be noticing that. brian: right, dr. osterholm a former adviser and constant medical presence on cable news said this and predicted in his own knows astro dom must fashion what the winter is going to be like. we are going to be in a the middle of a viral blizzard across the whole country. this is going to be blizzard that is going to hit all 50 states. we will see a lot of places hit by this viral blizzard i just talked about. it might be thought of as a category 5 hurricane in many, many parts of the country. we have got to get through the next three to eight weeks when we are going to get hit hard. brian: the omicron virus we are paying attention. cases are up 383% in two weeks. hospi
and there s a new advisory this morning on the youth mental health crisis which says the pandemic among other challenges has had a, quote, devastating impact on young people. that s a lot to get into. my next guest, msnbc contributor dr. redlener. every day it appears to be more transmissible but less severe. dr. osterholm last week hypothesized and he was hypothesizing the two variants that won t overwhelm delta or vice versa, but that they ll circulate together. he think that s a more likely scenario. if omicron can overtake delta, that might actually be good
a place where you can gather with kids unmasked as they re waiting to get vaccinated. so when dr. olsterholm talks about curve balls, what s he worried about? at this point, i think there s some agreement with dr. osterholm because everything we re seeing right now, we re expecting. we expected this to occur. we have been long forecasting here at the institute for health metrics that we re going to see 10,000 weekly deaths well into cold and flu season because of cold or dry air. i don t think this is as much a curve ball as something that s anticipated. it s preventable is the key point. dr. gupta, very reassuring news. steve schmidt, claire mccaskill, jason johnson it was a treat. the next hour of deadline white house starts after a quick break. r of deadline white house starts after a quick break. lowering your a1c with once-weekly ozempic® can help you get back in it. oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! my zone. lowering my a1c, cv risk,