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People can't find at-home rapid tests, pcr texts can take several days to get results. what do you think needs to happen to get testing to a better place? >> well first of all, what we were discussing in our articles is not for the immediate time. it is a strategic plan for three to 12 months. but maetdly, we created the testing infrastructure and then when the vaccines came along, everyone thought, well, we're past this and let it go away. we need to re-create a testing infrastructure. much more pcr testing, much more at-home testing, and a much more coherent strategy for what happens when so...

Began to convert testing facilities into vaccine facilities, then not enough people were vaccinated. now we see varians popping up. now we're in a position where the market is not able to meet the demand. we spoke to a western operations manager for one of the lab-based companies that does pcr testing to talk about the demand they're seeing, and they are going flat out. have a listen. >> two, three weeks ago across the board we were collecting about 25,000, 30,000 covid tests per day. we finished our day today with 120,000 samples collected across the nation. sample increases of about 300% in ...

8,000, an 8% spike from the day before. hospitalizations have risen almost 20% since monday. >> clearly new york and washington, d.c. are ahead of the curve, but not by much. so expect that in the next three to four weeks we're going to see everyone really hit with this. >> reporter: new jersey identified more than 28,000 new covid-19 cases via pcr testing, governor phil murphy said on thursday. the number of positive cases likely higher due to at-home testing, he added. some governors calling on the national guard. ohio governor mike dewine deploying 1,250 national guard troops on the day the...

If a student is in a classroom with close contact with someone with covid, they can return to the class? >> it's about increased testing. previously in new york city schools if a student tested positive for covid-19, any of their unvaccinated close contacts had to quarantine for ten days. that's no longer the case. if a student tests positive for covid-19, the teacher will distribute at-home rapid tests to the entire classroom, and then those students, if they do not test positive, they can keep coming to class as long as they also don't have any symptoms. they say they will need to take a cov...

Days for covid pcr testing, following high demand, and pharmacists warn of patchy supplies of rapid test kits. we don't know when these are going to be available, so it's very difficult to plan, and let our patients and people know, in terms of when to come back, and when it's going to be in the pharmacies. nicola sturgeon rules out any further restrictions in scotland, but continues to urge caution, as cases rise further. record numbers of covid infections are recorded in both france and the united states, as the omicron variant continues to spread. soaring energy bills, rising taxes and stag...