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Two weeks to help keep health care workers safe. weve established free testing locations across the nation with additional new sites opening soon in maine, maryland, nevada, delaware, texas and washington state. weve worked aggressively to s stock our nations medicine cap net with a diverse portfolio of treatments. its important to note that we have more treatments available now than at any point during the pandemic. yesterday the president announced hes instructed the team to double the u.s. go...

At-home rapid testing kits are the new toilet paper of this pandemic. Sitting in line for 2 hours this past weekend it made me realize the intense need for these tests. If you were lucky enough to get one at any one of the distribution centers consider yourself lucky.

As positivity rates reach 17% in San Diego County, the demand for COVID-19 tests at local testing sites have also increased dramatically.

South Carolina has set a new all-time daily record for COVID-19 cases, obliterating all previous marks as the state enters an accelerated new phase of the disease.

South Carolina has set a new all-time daily record for COVID-19 cases, obliterating all previous marks as the state enters an accelerated new phase of the disease.

Huge line this morning. however, just a few moments ago, they realized this location is closed so the crowd dispersed -- >> what? >> yeah, i know. so they were waiting in line for who knows how long to get the covid test but there is another line across the street from here in midtown manhattan, theres a huge line, in fact. we were there a few minutes ago. they told us they are separating folks for pcr tests as well as rapid tests and there are huge lines for both. hours are limited today. obvio...

Heard from a city health official, and theyre processing 170,000 tests each day now which is a record in itself. the past record was 120,000 tests, but the good news is that help has arrived in the city across all of the bureaus. the mayor pledged that expanding testing locations across the city, hoping to have 112 covid testing sites. the federal government is stepping up. there are sites available to the public as well and starting next week the governor said there will be testing options as w...

And available by request by you and me. hes deploying 1,000 more members of the military to help at overburdened hospitals. biden is also adding some 20,000 testing locations nationwide, as well as, this is important, 10,000 new vaccine pop-up clinics staffed with help to speed up appointments. all this to slow two concerning trends. first, the skyrocketing number of covid infections up 16% in one week and, second, severe cases in hospitals. often, most often among the unvaccinated. up 35% in th...

Choke points all around. he said they will be adding more testing locations this week. theyll be distributing more at-home tests. and theyll be doing a lot more quality control moving forward, obviously because there are a lot of choke points and a lot of issues that people are running into, as we get into the holiday season. >> i know people who have had to cancel their holiday plans because they needed a test to go out of the country and they havent been able to do that because the testing sit...

So we were responding to the experiences we were having, and we did not, and ive been clear about this, what i said yesterday, we did not expect omicron to move quite this quickly. >> and garrett, to address some of these challenges, this week we heard from the mayor there that they are expanding testing locations. theyre also making more at-home tests available to folks in the community, and then we also learned theyre going to be doing more quality control to ensure that things are moving more...