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>> reporter: at this library at miami-dade county, you are looking at two different lines. this is for free testing kits. this is for testing on-site. both of them snake around the building in both directions with no end in sight. a national crisis, chaos in lines from new york and miami and dallas. >> we have more work to do and quadruple number of pharmacies offering free test and they are now more than 20,000 places where you can get tested for free. >> reporter: that expanded access comes al...

Borisjohnson defends the uk governments decision not to impose further covid restrictions in england before the new year — and says 90% of those in intensive care havent had a booster. the majority of people ending up in intensive _ the majority of people ending up in intensive care people were not boosted — intensive care people were not boosted. u, a, intensive care people were not boosted. _, t, ,, t, , t, boosted. nicola sturgeon rules out introducin: boosted. nicola sturgeon rules out i...

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Borisjohnson defends the uk governments decision not to impose further covid restrictions in england before the new year — and says 90% of those in intensive care havent had a booster. the majority of people ending up in intensive _ the majority of people ending up in intensive care people were not boosted — intensive care people were not boosted. .., ., intensive care people were not boosted. _, ., ,, ., , ., boosted. nicola sturgeon rules out introducin: boosted. nicola sturgeon rules out ...

Make sure before they go to events that they are not positive. actually this morning we are starting to give out free testing kits, three per household while supplies last to help them get tested. but theres not a lot you can do right now in the state of florida to stop the surge. it is an unquestioned surge in both positives and hospitalizations. >> well, that is very positive news, what you just said, that you will be sending three home testing kids free to folks in your city. thats a major st...

Backing n95 and kn95 masks, which offer the best protection. according to the c.d.c., a person wearing a cloth mask standing within six feet of an unmasked individual with covid, can become infected within 20 minutes, while it would take two and a half hours for a person wearing an n95 mask. >> a typical cloth mask might be 50% effective, and that was okay before. it doesnt seem to be enough with omicron. n95s offer much greater protection. theyre able to block 95% of particles. >> reporter: sti...

Product. theyre lucky to have food to sell let alone the labor to get the food served werther its th cooks or whoever it is. now the bigger corporations are picking winners and losers, add to that the mandates. its mandatory you have to wear masks. what a coincidence, the price o masks have gone up 100 percent. youre talking testing, everybodys talking about oma graun, but no testing kits available. so supply, demand, the inabilit to have many of the products to sell, so profit is way out the wi...

We will see breakthrough cases and we can truncate isolation and quarantine periods with rapid tests. >> sam, at a testing site. we saw massive lines there. wanting to get tested before the holiday. hows it looking today, sam? >> reporter: kerrys right that the numbers tell a story. this is a branch library in miami-dade county. what you see is a snapshot. its awfully congested. theres two lines. on one side these folks here are tested on site and waiting two to three hours. theres another line ...

That testing site that she has was a testing site that i was at ppe gear because she needed the support. these testing kits we got from the state when i was there, we didnt have the testing kits yet. i was help we are with the line trying to reduce the line and having people register for the test to get vaccinated and we got the testing kits and took it upon ourselves to be out in the streets speaking to the residents, giving them a testing kit so that we could reduce these lines at both testing...

Harsh criticism yet. cdc director walensky defended her agency against the ever-mutating virus. >> this is hard. we have ever-evolving science with an ever-evolving variant. and my job is to provide updated guidance in the context of rapidly rising cases. i am committed to continuing to do so and continuing to improve. >> senate health committee chair murray says people are frustrated and worried how tough it can be to locate a test and people find the cdcs isolation information confusing and fr...