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They are now out. they are all districted. so they have made a request from the department of health for more. i should also mention, poppy, that this isnt just a e testin site where we are. its a vaccination site. it is much busier on the testing site than the vaccination part of it. thats why youre hearing a lot of local officials pushing people to get tested but also to get vaccinated and boosted. >> absolutely. leyla, thank you for the reporting. lets talk about this with dr. peter hotez, a ...

2019, poppy. one woman said she was going to meet her grandson for the first time this weekend. it was worth all of the headache just to be able to hold him for the first time. poppy. >> i think clearly americans are making the calculations and a lot deciding to travel. n nadia, thank you. the surge of cases come pined with the holiday season led to a shortage of covid tests. in some lplaces, long lines. we have leyla san antontiago. >> reporter: the testing is taking place behind me right now...

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 ...

Major u.sair lines have called off. cruise lines with testing requirements. a small number of people on board tested positive for coronavirus and the ship was denied entry to two ports at caribbean islands. lets get to cnns laeyla santiago at a testing site. what are you seeing this monday morning? >> reporter: well, kaitlan, we are at one of the busiest sites here in south florida. when we arrived around 4:00 in the morning, the library of cars already wrapped around what is a large recreationa...

Aches, and scratchy throat since christmas, summoned the strength to head over to the city empty on wednesday morning to get tested. the clinic was dark. she wander off to find another testing site hoping she would not have to stand in line to meng in the cold. what it is just one of thousands if not millions of stories around the country. how worried are you about a possible tsunami and the closure that that brings? the ability to help the sick looking for help? >> chris, i am on service at bel...

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...

Right now as, quote, unprecedented. saying, quote, thousands of individual with coronavirus infections identified at the capitol daily. this is not capital city, you mean specifically at the capitol building. they are getting thousands of new infection found every single day. he then reminded senator schumer and mcconnell that he sent this letter to, that the capital building, which he is speaking for, and that testing site which is speaking about, they are also located in d.c.. do you see as a ...

We have heard all along authorities believing omicron may produce milder cases if youre vaccinated, but hospital officials in so many states say what theyre seeing among the unvaccinated is devastating. 17% more likely to be hospit hospitaliz hospitalized, 20% more likely to die. the nations top health officials on capitol hill today, defending the governments response. dr. avrntny faw dhi saying covid-19 is about extraordinary virus that has fooled everybody all the time. the senate panel askin...

And do it outside. health experts hope we wouldnt be at this point this far into the pandemic, but they did predict we would see this spike if people didnt heed precautions during the holidays. take a listen to what health experts say we should do now. >> you dont deal in i told you so is in public health, you deal with whats in front of you. thats why we are doing everything we can. thats why we have opened this testing site. we are moving heaven and earth to try to get more rapid tests availab...

Theyll tell you staff shortages. right now they are dealing with that as a major challenge because of burnout, because staff is getting sick, and yet that was not at the center of the address from governor ron desantis yesterday. he was focused on criticizing the federal government and its response to the crisis. listen. >> we have protected the right of our citizens to earn a living, provided our businesses with the ability to prosper, fought back against unconstitutional federal mandates, and ...