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Big names in the pharmaceutical industry are wasting no time expanding their market dominance, raising concerns over the marginalisation of private drugstores.

You see here going into 2022 when we would have that boom, boom test at home. and pill -- online solution? >> i don't think 500 million is enough on the test. i think that -- it has got to be prepurchased in billion of test we have to have a plan delivered to people's houses and i think then pfizer pill can play into that into major pharmacy chains that's got to be worked out in a public private partnership between the government and c vtion cvs and wal-mart and i can prescribe it and i need to be able to prescribe it as easily as i can tamiflu. >> marc siegel thanks appreciate it. still ahead...

Pharmacy chains, walgreens and cvs say they had to temporarily close a small number of stores and now at least 80% of staff hospital beds are full in 21 states. more states are also reporting record pediatric covid hospitalizations at upnc children's hospital at children's hospital of pittsburgh, they have never been busier. right now the entire hospital has about 35 covid patients at this time last year, they had just five. >> it is exponentially increased in terms of our numbers. >> reporter: notably, nurses here like jackie are seeing fewer covid icu patients during the omicron wave. >> it'...

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Letters than i have in the last year. >> reporter: we reached out to the country's leading pharmacy chains. rite aid said to help relieve stress, we're temporarily closing most of our pharmacies one hour early to allow our pharmacy teams to catch up from the day and prepare for the next. cvs acknowledges a shortage. rite aid says they may temporarily adjust their hours. cvs remains flexible in meeting patients achz needs. all three say they're actively increasing wages. >> now that the technicians are leaving en masse, hopefully they will figure out they need to make a change. still ahead, s...