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Are on it. >> president biden: google covid test near me. you can google it or go to any search engine and find out where free testing and the free testing site is available. if you want to figure out how to get across town to some restaurant that is great, you usually do google it. >> laura: fox news alert, breaking overnight, australia canceling novak djokovics visa just days before the australian open. more on that in just a moment. first, a bad day to be waking up as joe biden. the president...

Those covid-19 tests, to raleigh, north carolina, where lines were a mill long on christmas eve with some waiting up to two hours in traffic just to get to the testing site. in oahu, hawaii, at one testing site the line wrapped around several blocks with some waiting 2 1/2 hours to get tests. covid-19 also causing disruptions to supports and vacations. the nhl, the national hockey league, announcing its regular schedule for its season wont resume till tuesday. previously, the league planned to r...

Increase testing. we link that testing access to the new patients. -- and those who have already established medical care, because they can call the doctor make getting prescription. we need to make sure that those who dont have the access to those tools can still do that. thats where we do by reaching out to communities that are telling more about this drug, but also linking to the site where they can get treatment. >> so ideally when somebody comes into a testing site, or access is testing som...

We appreciate it. liz, let me start with you on this one and just kind of walk me through whats happening in north carolina, seeing some of the highest numbers throughout this pandemic so far. folks scrambling to get tested as were returning from holiday break. what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, that really goes hand-in-hand, this testing demand is at an all-time high and more and more of those tests are coming back positive in north carolina alone, more than 1.5 million cases now since the...

They created here is drive-thru testing site staffed in part by the national guard, chris. doctors i speak with say, look, we expected a post-holiday surge, but there are some things that we just could not prepare for with this omicron variant. take a listen. >> we were expecting it, we were prepared for it. i think what happened that no one could have -- could have predicted was how quickly the omicron variant spreads. it spreads so quickly. >> reporter: and another thing, chris, that dr. hall ...

Many americans gathered, some in close quarters, to ring in the new year, liz. how big are the lines youre seeing there so far in raleigh? >> reporter: joe, its more of what weve seen all week since before the christmas holiday. long lines, hours long wait. this particular testing site, ive actually tested here a couple of times and just easy breezy, was able to drive in, get a test and go. now its appointment only. a lot of other testing sites are doing that too to try to control the line and c...

Something that is an infection of covid and the flu. let me start off by saying that here in los angeles, yesterday, health officials recorded the highest number of covid infections in one day, that was 45,000 cases. you mentioned earlier, we had a seven-day period with also a record number, more than 200,000 infections in los angeles. and this testing site in west los angeles had a widely publicized case last week of a young boy who returned from mexico and tested positive for both covid and th...

Charles: good afternoon, the highly contagious omicron variant continues to drive the surge and drive the demand for covid testing across the country, states are trying to get a handle on it particularly here in georgia where you can see behind me atlantas mercedes benz stadium is now playing host to a mega testing site thats capable of testing up to 2,000 people per day and this is just one of 3 of these mega sites of the atlanta metro area which has certainly seen spike in infections, in fact,...

>> everyone is trying their best to keep kids in school so at the end of the day, that is the best place for kids to be. >> omicron outbreaks and bad weather still have airlines struggling to rebound. this weekend more than 5,000 flights were cancelled. this testing site is free por people who have an appointment but for those who want to get their hands on the rapid at-home test, those have been hard to come by and the biden administration hasnt started shipping them out yet. it could still be ...

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