omicron comes around? how are we going to prepare because i would say this time we were caught behind, and we don t need to be caught behind. we need to make sure that, yes, everyone should have high-quality masks. everyone should be able to access rapid testing. but what are we going to do policy-wise in terms of keeping americans safe on a local, state, and federal level that we haven t been doing? and that s the reason why, you know, the u.s. is an outlier. we have such a tremendous number of deaths due to covid-19, and that s what we need to be thinking about right now. all right. dr. uche blackstock, as always, thank you for your time and for your expertise. next, florida republicans push a bill that would shield people from discomfort over teaching unflattering parts of u.s. history. a state senator joins me next to talk about it. and later, inside florida s dark money scandal. who is funding ghost candidates and why they re dangerous to our democracy. but first, a previe