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Test. this is considered one of the busiest testing sites here in south florida. i spoke to the general manager. they are running the sites for the county here in miami-dade. he tells me they have seen a 50% increase in the demand for testing compared to that peak during the delta wave that was experienced here. here's what else he had to say. >> what we're seeing is just the volumes are coming through and it's a higher degree of volume. so that is volume that would have happened anyway because of the holidays. i just think with the rapid spread of omicron that's also created a little panic, s...

May be time to change the way we track the pandemic. >> for two years the pandemic preceded hospitalizations. so you could look at infections and know what was coming. even through the delta wave that was true because it was largely unvaccinated people who were getting infected. omicron changes that. this is the shift we've been waiting for in many ways where we move to where fewer vaccinate and particularly those unboosted, you might get infected, a couple of days of not feeling so great, but you're going to bounce back. that's very different from what we've seen in the past. so i no longer t...

Proceeded deaths. you can look at infections and know what was coming. and even of the delta wave. omicron changes that. we are moving to a phase where few vaccinated and boosted, you may get infections. i may be a couple of days not feeling so great but you are going to bounce back. that's very different than what we have seen in the past. so i no longer think infection should be the major metrics. obviously we continue to track infections among unvaccinated people. but, we really have to focus on hospitalizations and deaths now. >> let's bring in the director of allergy and infectious diseas...

Awareness of it. a lot of people didn't even know this was even something that was available and so we were able to do tens of thousands of people out of the hospital and no doubt save thousands of lives. this was during the summer when the south had the delta wave, what i would have done in other states is had these sites ready for when the winter wave hit in the northern states because we know that this virus moves in a seasonal and regional pattern. >> governor, toipght applaud you my wife went down and didn't even have coronavirus and exposed through me antibodies like that she never got i...

Awareness of it. a lot of people didn't even know this was even something that was available and so we were able to do tens of thousands of people out of the hospital and no doubt save thousands of lives. this was during the summer when the south had the delta wave, what i would have done in other states is had these sites ready for when the winter wave hit in the northern states because we know that this virus moves in a seasonal and regional pattern. >> governor, toipght applaud you my wife went down and didn't even have coronavirus and exposed through me antibodies like that she never got i...