best to protect them as well as ourselves. it is stunning how quickly this has moved. not even a month has passed since we first heard about omicron. look what's happened in the past couple of weeks. less than 1% of new cases were only krofnlt week ending december 11th that jump to 12.6 and now 73.2% so in two weeks it went from almost nothing to being almost three-quarters of the new cases in the united states. now, let's take a look at where it's even higher than 73%. there are pockets in the southeast as well as in the northwest where it's actually -- omicron is actually 95% of new cases so as i said just stunning how quickly this variant has spread. kate? >> elizabeth, thank you for that. and we know that a key element of the president's announcement today it centers on testing as you new omicron variant washes across the country. the lack of tests and delay in test results has become even