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Under way in the town of sturgis. organizers expect over 700,000 people to attend the ten-day event. adrienne bris in sturgis. we saw this event last year, as well. what is being done now, now that the delta variant is so emergent, to stop the spread of the virus? >> reporter: good morning to you, phil. the city has partnered with the health department to pass out free covid tests. they have thousands of the tests. when i checked in last, they had only distributed 18. on top of that, city officials this saying, hey, we know you want to come to sturgis to have a whole lot of fun, but if you hav...

Capability on the testing side of things that the country actually has in this moment? >> we need to spend the money correctly. if you look tat the funding in the relief package for testing, it would actually cover schools if we only did rapid testing. we would have to do it twice a week because if you do rapid testing too infrequently, you can miss the contagious window. but if you only use the funding that congress made available for the tests that most people are aware of, the pcr tests, which tests for the genetic material, the rna afof this virus, the tes are too expensive and take too lo...