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Thanks for being here. just take off from what i was talking about with dr. ramirez, what are you seeing, what is the reality of what is happening inside of hospitals right now? >> well, i'll tell you here in michigan, we are still stuck in this delta wave, we're seeing more cases of omicron pop up, but hospitalizations from this virus tend to last a very long time. and so, we're about week six or seven now of this surge, around christmas we had a slight dip in our number of hospitalized covid patients and it is back up again. our positivity rate is around 22%, 23% test positive rate. some of ...

Let's go live to one of those testing sites now. leyla santiago is at one of the busiest locations in south florida. i understand officials there are seeing a massive increase in people wanting tests, even bigger than from the peak of the delta surge? >> that's correct. you're talking about a 50% increase in the demand for testing, compared to the peak of what we saw during that delta wave. so let's go over the numbers. where we are right now, the busiest testing site in south florida. they administered nearly 9,000 tests yesterday. 60,000 across all the sites that are run by the county here. ...

Testing site in miami. layla, how long is the wait for people there? >> you know, it kind of varies around what time you come, but bottom line it is hours. people have been telling us anywhere from two to three hours, and, you know, this is one of the busiest sites in miami-dade county. it is run by n ho mi health. they tell me that this site in particular, they administered nearly 9,000 tests yesterday. countywide 60,000, and let me put that in perspective for you. when you compare that to the last peak of the delta wave, that's about a 50% increase, so what does that mean? well, that means t...

Across miami-dade county. let me put that in perspective for you. that's about a 50% increase compared to the peak during the delta wave. so that really speaks to the volume, the increase and the demand for testing. as a result today, miami d-dade county has opened two more sites and have plans to open more in the next few days because that's what they have do to meet that challenge as so many people coming to get tested given how quickly omicron is spreading and given the holiday gatherings that we're seeing. so we talked to a few people in the line. listen to how they compare what they're se...

Delta wave. does he think the american people are that forgetful or that stupid? carley we spoke about this over the weekend, what we spoke about was a pandemic of positive tests. asymptomatic healthy people out there coming back on the regular with positive coronavirus, you know, test and that is causing a work shortage, a labor shortage in almost every single industry. i know this it's happening in the media industry, it's happening in the airline industry. it's happening in professional sports it's happening everywhere. lawrence points out that who might need to get a test or having trouble...