and it s going to be hard to handle another surge. no slack. you wrote a piece on that really that i think is very moving and people should go look at that. professor osterholm, do you the test surge you know, 500 million new tests. but not for a few weeks. don t we need these tests yesterday? well, we do. and we do have some testing. but what we re going to need, i think, over the course of the next two to eight weeks is going to be remarkable. we are going to see this big surge nagtionwide. remember, as we have been discussing, the delta wave the delta surge really hit a limited number of states over the last four months. if you are one of those states, like ours here in minnesota, or parts of new york, you understand the situation that delta s done but a lot of the country hasn t had a need for this testing. if you talk to people in california, they will ask you what s going on? what are you concerned about? well, that s going to change with this particular variant because