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Backing n95 and kn95 masks, which offer the best protection. according to the c.d.c., a person wearing a cloth mask standing within six feet of an unmasked individual with covid, can become infected within 20 minutes, while it would take two and a half hours for a person wearing an n95 mask. >> a typical cloth mask might be 50% effective, and that was okay before. it doesn't seem to be enough with omicron. n95s offer much greater protection. they're able to block 95% of particles. >> reporter: still, there are signs that the surge of omicron infections may have crested in the northeast. >> cas...

Product. they're lucky to have food to sell let alone the labor to get the food served werther it's th cooks or whoever it is. now the bigger corporations are picking winners and losers, add to that the mandates. it's mandatory you have to wear masks. what a coincidence, the price o masks have gone up 100 percent. you're talking testing, everybody's talking about oma graun, but no testing kits available. so supply, demand, the inabilit to have many of the products to sell, so profit is way out the window especially when the dollar has lost so much value a it has two inflation. >> has this repo...

We will see breakthrough cases and we can truncate isolation and quarantine periods with rapid tests. >> sam, at a testing site. we saw massive lines there. wanting to get tested before the holiday. how's it looking today, sam? >> reporter: kerry's right that the numbers tell a story. this is a branch library in miami-dade county. what you see is a snapshot. it's awfully congested. there's two lines. on one side these folks here are tested on site and waiting two to three hours. there's another line and show you video that wraps around the back end of the library for free testing kits. that's ...

That testing site that she has was a testing site that i was at ppe gear because she needed the support. these testing kits we got from the state when i was there, we didn't have the testing kits yet. i was help we are with the line trying to reduce the line and having people register for the test to get vaccinated and we got the testing kits and took it upon ourselves to be out in the streets speaking to the residents, giving them a testing kit so that we could reduce these lines at both testing sites and it was important for us to educate them about why they should take a testing kit if they...

Harsh criticism yet. cdc director walensky defended her agency against the ever-mutating virus. >> this is hard. we have ever-evolving science with an ever-evolving variant. and my job is to provide updated guidance in the context of rapidly rising cases. i am committed to continuing to do so and continuing to improve. >> senate health committee chair murray says people are frustrated and worried how tough it can be to locate a test and people find the cdc's isolation information confusing and frustrating. the gop is unloading on president biden. >> he promised america we would have an apun da...