act to ramp up testing and the government needs to work with private manufacturers to increase the amount of rapid testing that s available and get it out to all residents. you know, thought just through the website and not through insurers. it has to be found in grocery stores and libraries and made incredibly accessible to the american public. i think also this is the time to put that air travel vaccine mandate in place. i know biden has talked about it, but we know from polling that people would be willing to get vaccinated if they needed vaccines to travel. and so i think that it s clear what needs to be put in place. it just depends on whether the political will is there and i really think this administration can get it done but we can t get caught behind like we did this time. dr. blackstock, when i heard you say we have to be able to get more testing and we have to get more masks. i heard that in march of 2020, april of 2020. i mean, there is a part of me that is how are we ne
a time for us to push harder to get vaccines mandated. we can even try for an air travel vaccine mandate. this is an issue of, how do we get more people vaccinated, and also, how do we make workplaces safe. doctor vin spencer, in the new york times op-ed, you say, why your patient served facing milder cases, they re still taking up a hospital beds. it s still dangerous. you say, we should not be lulled into complacency, because this variant seems milder. listen to what doctor fauci said this week. omicron, with it s extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will ultimately find just about everybody. do you agree with doctor fauci? i don t hear public health experts saying this. it s a bit defeatist and dangerous, is it not? absolutely. look, i ve been working in the