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Testing positive for covid. >> many of the omicron cases interestingly are either without symptoms or minimally symptomatic. particularly the breakthrough cases. >> reporter: monday more than 7400 flights were delayed. and the seasonal rush is also creating a heavy demand on covid testing. >> all i can do is wait. several places is the same. >> reporter: testing locations are swamped with lines ramped around for blocks. and president biden conceding the steps he took earlier to scale up testing ...

Go back to school, within a week or two of schools opening is when we are going to see our highest numbers. >> reporter: amid the winter weather, the pandemic is roaring across the country with over a quarter million new cases now diagnosed daily. thats a record. >> this omicron variant is such a game-changer, in terms of its high, high transmissibility. its like this big virus blizzard. >> reporter: hospitalizations are only about half of what they were last winter, but some states are seeing p...

Distributive. >> sean: you had these centers all across florida free of charge to anybody -- that was only first of the breakthrough cases with delta. it quickly ended delta in your state and now theyre not available at this point and you cant even buy your own? i just read that today. >> they give us some. they give us some but they dont give us is much as we need. so we felt in infrastructure florida, sean, two to three times the number of treatments that they are sending us and we could make ...

States that dont publicly report breakthrough cases, hospitalizations and deaths according to a rockefeller foundation study. bidens former covid adviser rick bright who will join us in the next hour says consistent data reporting is critical to track emergent spread and evolution of a spread. why is nevada not reporting this critical data? >> we do report deaths. i dont know where that came from. were reporting deaths on a daily basis. breakthrough cases are more difficult when it comes to test...

Million -- over a million cases a day in the united states if you look at the cases from home tests that are detected by home tests and so we cant have life that is normal now. we will get through this, and i do expect that probably over the next few days well start to see some hints of cases dropping in places like d.c. i think we already see the beginning of that, but its going to take hunkering down for the next month for us all to get through this. lets have our leaders level with the countr...

All across florida free of charge to anybody -- that was only first of the breakthrough cases with delta. it quickly ended delta in your state and now theyre not available at this ps point and u cant even buy your own? i just read thatlas today. >> they give us some. they give us some ey dont give us is much as we need. so we felt in infrastructure florida, sean, two to three times the number of treatments that they are sending us and we could make those readily available. weve asked them to do ...

Unvaccinated. >> will the president update the language to be more reflective of the fact the people who are triple vaccinated are catching and spreading covid? >> i think the president has said, as have we are number of times, that there will be breakthrough cases, people who get covid. >> sean: jen psaki had a difficult time expanding why the left favorite supreme court justice spewing covid misinformation. >> you been aggressive countering covid misinformation. why do you think about covid mi...

So not only are vaccinated people who are getting infected way, way, way less likely to end up seriously sick or hospitalized because they had the vaccine, but look how fast the new cases are rising in unvaccinated people versus people who have gotten the shot. man. get your vaccine now. please. if you havent been boosted, get your booster. now is the time. look at this graph. which line would you rather be on? as this omicron variant just runs us down in the road, right now. that said, at the s...

Departments where the case numbers come through, from the healthcare facilities to the state public health departments and on to the national level, right now are literally overrun. theyrelogged by many weeks. i say the numbers are surely important in the sense that, yes, we have a lot of cases, but we dont really have an understanding of how many. what is going to be important to follow is how many people are hospitalized, and how many are on oxygen. thats going to be a lagging indicator, it wi...

Omicron seems to be less severe. over the weekend dr. fauci warned we shouldnt get complacent. many this n this country remain unvaccinated. saw flights cancelled. how much will covid fatigue affect the president? >> i think the president has the challenge of continuing to make sure people are following the rules, and that they -- we have all the tools that we need whether its testing and vaccines and continuing to wear masks so that we can get a handle of this virus. i think to the presidents c...