by the way, on an unrelated matter, i m looking forward to the a lot of time tell me about that as man admire of your work. jose, so you re so kind to ask. on tuesday my book the loop comes out. it s a look at what essentially ai is doing to human behavior in the future. if you think about it this way, google maps and other guidance systems have taken away my ability to find my way from one place to another. in this book i look at all of the other parts of human decision-making that is affected by technology and i really appreciate your asking about it. looking forward to getting a copy and reading it. jacob ward, thank you so much. good to see you. now to the latest on covid-19. the world health organization is warning that the pandemic is nowhere near over with global infections increasing by 20% last week. here in the u.s., parts of the country have started seeing new hospitalizations plateau, but in the west and midwest, the number of patients needing intensive
virus themselves in california ambulances are facing long delays. some scheduled surgeries are being postponed. in oregon hundreds of procedures are on hold in a way it is not an elective surgery because my life is not my life anymore. reporter: massachusetts general hospital system will postpone more than 2,000 surgeries each week, bracing for an influx of patients we ve got patients being treated in hallways we have patients being treated in chairs, in the waiting room last week we had to shut down a part of our emergency department because we just didn t have the nursing staff to staff it reporter: but there is some light at the end of the tunnel. cities like chicago, washington, d.c., and new york seeing hospitalizations plateau and some dips in the number of daily cases. overall, the prognosis, the forecast for covid is much brighter than it had been before and that is very positive news. reporter: and starting this weekend, if you have insurance,