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If you look nationally, what we're seeing according to cdc data is that for the week ending december 18th, there were 201 children in the hospital. for the week ending december 25th, there were 260 children in the hospital. so that's a big -- still a small number, but a big difference. if we look specifically at new york city, december 5th, through 11th, there were 22 children in the hospital with covid. december 19th through 23rd, a shorter time period, but more recent, 109 admissions. so that really tells you something when you look at the differences in those hospital admissions numbers. no...

The challenge is that the entire country is not moving at the same pace. the omicron wave started later in other parts of the country. we shouldn't expect a national peak in the next coming days. the next few weeks will be tough. jake, this is also why it's so important that we are surging our resources to hospitals that are struggling. it's important we double down on precautions we're taking. one thing we're learning during this surge is that our vaccines are still working very well to keep people out of the hospital and to save their lives. it's why we want everyone to get vaccinated, to ge...

Inflation, you got the supply chain constrains and the price of gas is high. there are definitely some negatives too. i think and have thought from the beginning that the most critical aspect of this is you got to get control of the virus. and if the omicron variant is going to explode the way it seems to be exploding, then we have to absolutely have a -- keep our fingers crossed it is going to be mild and that this could turn more like into a flu or the cold, et cetera. if we're going to have a mass ramp up of hospitalizations, regardless of whether you have legal lockdowns or not, you're goi...

Need to do on testing, and that's a message that's very clear from him to the public, to the team we need to pull every lever possible. that's why you see so many additional spigots open when it comes to testing and supply in the months ahead. we can't allow to lose sight of the bigger picture. in addition to testing, there are other tools that are so important that people are aware of. we have more therapeutics this month that are available than at any other month during the pandemic of because of early investments in treatments that were made. we have now oral and intravenous tests. we have ...

Variant or before, we had a lot of -- proudly, texas had a lot of mass testing sites. and it was fairly easy to go get tested, we have all this land, it was easy. >> reporter: and now? >> it's two to three days in advance. we ordered a lot of home kits so we can do our staff so they don't have to run around the city trying to find them. but there's only so much you can do, they'll run out of those and then we'll be in the same boat. >> reporter: that testing situation only complicates this latest omicron wave. i spoke to one woman who went to a county testing site here in dallas because she th...