have to be able to augment staffing using federal assets, military assets, hhs assets to make sure no hospital goes down, and hospitals need to think about load balancing and making sure that no hospital in a given region is over burdened with cases. i think we can do this, but it s going to require coordination and a lot of people realizing this is going to be a disruptive couple of weeks until this surge is over. there was an unusual criticism from six former advisers to the president during the transition, in particular saying that we are really facing a new and an endemic, and we ve got to reframe the way we think about this disease, and also that we have to do more in terms of testing and masking, that we re not putting enough attention on masking. what did you think of some of their other criticisms? i think they re very valid. i think this is something that needed to be said very early on in the pandemic. we were going to end towards end nisty, and we cannot be in a