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Let's go live to one of those testing sites now. leyla santiago is at one of the busiest locations in south florida. i understand officials there are seeing a massive increase in people wanting tests, even bigger than from the peak of the delta surge? >> that's correct. you're talking about a 50% increase in the demand for testing, compared to the peak of what we saw during that delta wave. so let's go over the numbers. where we are right now, the busiest testing site in south florida. they administered nearly 9,000 tests yesterday. 60,000 across all the sites that are run by the county here. ...

"operation warp speed" started under trump and then the expedited push of the vaccines by the biden administration has been a great success. but there's been a lot of other things that have not gone as well. what do you think? >> so i agree with kirsten. i think that the lack of cheap, rapid mass testing is looking like a worse and worse failure of u.s. policy. under now we've had a republican and a democratic administration running our covid policy. and we've got this continuing problem. and it just shows up in area after area. so, for example, we've got the cdc with its new guidelines saying...

In our politics lead, president biden's political future is tied to getting the virus under control and to keeping the u.s. economy moving. so what does that mean? given the new cdc guidance and the quarantine times and employees and everything going on with omicron. let's discuss. kirsten, back in january, the biden administration vowed to shut down covid. it appears that they underestimated the virus' staying power. what do you make of how they are handling it these last-minute changes to travel restrictions, quarantine lengths, testing, how is this going to affect his re-election chances an...

Midterms, we'll have to see because i have to say, i don't think that it's been that stellar in terms of how they've handled things and, obviously, the biggest problem has been the testing. and this is something that the administration was really caught flat footed on and the president has admitted as much. but it's still not entirely clear why that happened when other countries were able to be prepared for this in a way the united states wasn't. and to have it, you know, it shouldn't be a shock to anybody that during the holidays people will be traveling, right? and that's when people do test...

Maryland cutting back federal court operations. the cdc says the fast-moving omicron variant accounts for fewer than 60% of covid cases nationwide, down from a previous estimate of 73%. both variants expected to fuel a post-holiday spike, the wait for tests still insufferably long in some areas. while the shortage of at-home tests won't get fixed quickly enough. >> i hope we fix it in january and february but we'll have to have a real effort to make sure there's plentiful, cheap, ubiquitous testing everywhere in the country. that's where we should be in this pandemic now. >> jake, the biden ad...