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Before passengers got on. when it comes to the issue of testing, where we are right now, one of the busiest sites in south florida, we are still seeing very long lines. we asked someone who went through that line, they waited three hours this morning, three hours even though miami-dade county yesterday opened two new sites. and extended hours. you're seeing quite the demand for testing right now and the workers we talked to say they see this going into the new year. listen. >> it is almost like covid started all over again. so with the influx of patients that are coming through. a lot of peopl...

>> what i saw is that new york's governor kathy hochul released a statement last week encouraging visitors to be fully vaccinated and boosted and wear a mask. but to my knowledge there is no mandate, right, for visitors to even be vaccinated. >> that's correct. well, so what you have is someone cannot come into a facility if you're symptomatic, right? that is always the case. but the screening has been shown to be somewhat ineffective, we haven't caught that many people. it says, the industry is saying to cms in particular, let's wait for this surge to die down. let's wait for this to go away ...

Guidance from ten days to five days for those with asymptomatic infection was driven by evidence that most transmission occurs in the first five days. meantime, as hospitalizations of children with covid-19 are rising at an alarming rate, surging nearly 50% in just a week, dr. walensky says she hopes for approval for boosters for 1 to 15-year-olds in the days and weeks ahead. vaccines for kids under age 5 will take longer. as airlines canceled thousands of flights over the holiday weekend, president biden says vaccine requirements for domestic travel could be imposed if his medical team recomm...

Omicron, they're not perfect. but to bottom line it, basing this on what dr. fauci said this morning, they are still useful. imperfect but useful. let's talk about what they're good for and what they're not quite as useful for. if this test says that you have covid, then you almost certainly have covid. if the test says you don't have covid, that's where you get more questions. now, the folks at abbott labs, they make the test widely used in the united states. we reached out to them. this is what they had to say. we've conducted lab analyses and tests on the omicron variant from live virus inc...