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>> reporter: yasmin, it varies widely from coast to coast. schools across the country are ramping up those safety protocols and seeing more lean on testing. a negative test is required for students to return. here in wake county with raleigh they are having testing access expanded for every week staff and students. they resume in-person learning here. educators on edge with the sharp rise in cases why in north carolina more than 1.5 million cases statewide. nearly 20,000 deaths. now nationwide the majority of these new covid cases are the highly contagious omicron variant. educators are trying...

Msnbc coverage continues with lindsey reiser right now. good to be with you. i'm lindsey reiser. we're going to start with a new update from president biden on the covid response. the president vowing to do more to boost testing access as people in some areas continue to face hours-long lines. >> we've seen how tough it was for some folks to get a test this weekend. it shows that we have more work to do. we're doing it. >> the president is also warning that hospitals will soon be overrun in areas with lower vaccination rates. his remarks come as positive test numbers break records around the...

Remdesivir was new. how do we get this to places where it will do the most good? we found so far is that states are allocating a certain amount and work with hospitals and clinics and others to try to get certain doses out to places where patients may access it. in this case, because the time is so short and because it's linked to testing as other things so quickly after testing or symptom onset, we need to make sure as we increase testing access, that we link that testing access to potential for those taking it are those who can access testing and those who have established medical care becau...

Tests for my home so i could have it with my family and it cost me a good $150 in order to make sure i had enough tests available for me and my sisters. that is a luxury i have the ability to do. we know many families do not. what we need to do is think of strategies like we have the social vulnerability index which categorizes zip codes based on who is more or less likely to have a burden of a disease process. we have that data already available to us. why don't we mail free covid-19 tests to those households, n95 masks, and help the most vulnerable protect themselves and all of us in the lon...

Unfortunately, what we're seeing is that more and more of our children are being infected. we see in hispanic how we're having outbreaks literally every other day. in south carolina i just heard a report -- that's where my family lives. one of my cousins is a teacher in lancaster county. a 16-year-old died. we're seeing teachers getting infected. we know we have a shortage of educators and they are literally preparing our future to be able to remain this power house globally. so we can't afford to handicap our ex-system because of this pandemic and the inability to vaccinate both our staff and...