Rapid Mass Testing News Today

Lets go live to one of those testing sites now. leyla santiago is at one of the busiest locations in south florida. i understand officials there are seeing a massive increase in people wanting tests, even bigger than from the peak of the delta surge? >> thats correct. youre talking about a 50% increase in the demand for testing, compared to the peak of what we saw during that delta wave. so lets go over the numbers. where we are right now, the busiest testing site in south florida. they administ...

"operation warp speed" started under trump and then the expedited push of the vaccines by the biden administration has been a great success. but theres been a lot of other things that have not gone as well. what do you think? >> so i agree with kirsten. i think that the lack of cheap, rapid mass testing is looking like a worse and worse failure of u.s. policy. under now weve had a republican and a democratic administration running our covid policy. and weve got this continuing problem. and it ju...

In our politics lead, president bidens political future is tied to getting the virus under control and to keeping the u.s. economy moving. so what does that mean? given the new cdc guidance and the quarantine times and employees and everything going on with omicron. lets discuss. kirsten, back in january, the biden administration vowed to shut down covid. it appears that they underestimated the virus staying power. what do you make of how they are handling it these last-minute changes to travel ...

Midterms, well have to see because i have to say, i dont think that its been that stellar in terms of how theyve handled things and, obviously, the biggest problem has been the testing. and this is something that the administration was really caught flat footed on and the president has admitted as much. but its still not entirely clear why that happened when other countries were able to be prepared for this in a way the united states wasnt. and to have it, you know, it shouldnt be a shock to any...

Maryland cutting back federal court operations. the cdc says the fast-moving omicron variant accounts for fewer than 60% of covid cases nationwide, down from a previous estimate of 73%. both variants expected to fuel a post-holiday spike, the wait for tests still insufferably long in some areas. while the shortage of at-home tests wont get fixed quickly enough. >> i hope we fix it in january and february but well have to have a real effort to make sure theres plentiful, cheap, ubiquitous testing...