“When he began feeling ill, he thought it might be a side effect of a flu shot and a booster shot of coronavirus vaccine. On the night of Nov. 1, he went to the hospital ...
Even prior to the pandemic, it was not uncommon for us to operate at 90-95% capacity on average,... His family will never know whether the pandemic indirectly shortened his life. They understand he might have died even if he’d been admitted immediately to a large medical center."
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/12/27/iowa-man-dies-waiting-hospital-bed-covid/9022331002/
Forward planning by USA Department of Defense [DoD] (on behalf of and in coordination with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/ jnr 'partner') awarding a $136.7 million contract to MilliporeSigma to make more of a key component of rapid Covid tests to boost their production... "that will take 3 years to build and will start producing 83.3 million tests a month in late 2024 at the earliest"
"“We went from no over-the-counter tests in January to 46 million in October, 100 million in November and almost 200 million in December.” Biden said.
Boost and Test, (and Track and Trace) and hope the "rest of the world" gets fully-vaccinated :
https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1477035025442869251
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10355941/Biden-signs-137M-deal-COVID-test-factory-start-producing-83-3M-tests-month-late-2024.html