pressure, but what i actually think it s based in, is the science, and that s what i hope we will make sure that we do. base everything in the science. the gap in the change of instructions for me and something i call upon this administration to do, and i m not alone in this. democrats, republicans and just anybody on the street, we need more testing. so it s one thing to say isolate for five days. the science supports that. the doctor just said much more adequately than i will ever be able to that the shedding is stronger in the early days of infection, but what i hope that this also reflects is that we have to make sure we re testing folks. i think back, jake, on the early days of the virus when we had no vaccine yet. and what did we all talk about? testing, tracing and isolation. so the answer to this, of course, is going to be the isolation. but it s also going to be testing. and i hope and command that we make sure that we have free
making sure that whatever people needed to do right now to stay safe, whether it was sheltering with people who they don t live with or going out of town to places that are also covid hotspots, that it doesn t spark another surge of covid when they return. so we re making sure we are testing folks in shelters, if they re in shelters, and we ll have robust capacity hopefully when they come back, to make sure we don t continue to have two crises at once. that s very important. the reality is as we await this storm to hit your state, many people are also choosing not to evacuate. so how will hospitals handle certain hurricane patients that they will receive when they re already dealing with icus maxed with coacvid patients? yeah. we will certainly handle whatever comes our way. i m in a hospital right now, and i know that they ve been very diligent about working with every partner we have to make