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When the president had a celebration at the white house and said the nation was on the cusp of declaring independence from the virus. obviously, as we start now 2022, we're seeing case counts at an all-time high and this was at the top of the agenda for president biden. that's yet focus at this point on the part of the administration is two points. one is you mentioned t testing. the president laying out a plan to get 500 million take-home tests to americans. we will see a website launched in the next few weeks as an effort to try to help with that. they've also launched these testing sites an...

Fate in the australian open could come at any moment. hello and welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin in our health lead. a new warning from the top health experts. today dr. anthony fauci, and the acting fda commissioner say omicron is so efficient at spreading that almost everyone in the u.s. will at least be exposed to it. even if you're vaccinated and boosted. that does not mean, of course, that everyone is going to get infected or get sick. just exposed to it. the biden administration says it will send 10 million test kits to schools every month to help keep classrooms open. ...

Probably in store for something that's probably a little more rounded than what we saw in south africa and maybe even what we're seeing in london. i think the mantra has been that this is going to be a very sharp peak. it's going to be up and come down right away. but what we're seeing here in the united states are sort of rolling peaks. so, you know, as the governor said, things seem to be slowing down a little bit in new york, philadelphia, even the major metropolitan areas around d.c. but in the sort of more rural parts of america, we're seeing that case counts are still accelerating upward...

So we have to change something, i think. >> ride it out. >> sandra: thanks, dan. >> john: good to talk to you, dan. how many people do you know, sandra, in the last couple of weeks have come down with covid? >> sandra: many, many. and that's why it all comes down to a local level. many. i mean -- the new york area, a lot of the suburbs of new york are struggling with case counts going up and hospitalization numbers are going up, not inundated like they were at one point. but it's -- it's spreading like wildfire. the omicron variant is definitely more contagious. back to dan's point he just mad...

Celebrate it. >> reporter: and as omicron surges across the country, many cities are readjusting their celebrations at the advice of public health officials, like dr. dave chokshi. where is new york right now in this surge? >> it's been a difficult few weeks,s and, unfortunately, we have a tough few weeks ahead of us as well. >> reporter: atlanta and san francisco scrapped their new year's eve plans. las vegas and chicago are still moving forward. >> since it's outdoors and we're spacing people out, we have some confidence. >> reporter: 15 states are seeing record new case counts. the united s...