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Christmas and those testing lines are pretty long. >> reporter: they are really long here. take a look at this. all the way back to the end of this parking lot in deptford, new jersey. and then around the corner. we've seen hundreds of cars in and out of this parking lot throughout the day. we're going to see hundreds more before this site closes this evening. and what we're really seeing here is a lot of frustration from people. people are getting tested for a variety of reasons. they're getting tested, one, as a precaution, they feel better being tested. two, they may be traveling and they n...

Family members as you showed in the introduction and i think it was really hard to ask people to wait any longer, particularly people who are vaccinated and boostered and really had prepared to be safe when they traveled and saw family. so all these compounding issues coming together really meant that we were -- it is not surprising that we are where we are with cases just, um, just kind of exploding across the united states. >> yeah. and then, as you just referred to, those breakthrough infections, people have had the shots and still have been infected. so why don't i get your advice on what ...

Guarding public health, right. when you're watching what's happening now with these extremely long testing lines, and of course president biden admitting he wishes he would have sent these tests several months before, we're in year three, coming into year three of the pandemic, did the biden administration drop the ball on this at least when it comes to testing? >> well, you know, they were focusing on vaccines. we clearly put billions of dollars into testing supplies and capacity, and yes, we need to do it more on testing. frankly, speaker pelosi was running around a year ago saying testing, ...

Communities, making their own decisions here. >> so gary, we see the testing lines are long. we know the cases are up. how about hospitalizations? are those up, too? >> yes. hospitalizations are up a little bit. about 25 00 people are in the hospital in new jersey right now. but that's not nearly what we saw last december. clearly what's happening here is people in the hospital are unvaccinated. the people that are vaccinated are getting to stay out of the hospital. >> all right. gary, thank you. they're testing now at the turnstiles in new york city. what can you tell us about that? >> two su...

Packed. so are testing lines. the demand of over drive for those seeing loved ones. >> we have got to do better. i think things will improve greatly as we get into january. that does not help us today and tomorrow. >> reporter: from family gatherings to football field, there is massive spread. the latest college football games to go dark after boston college had 40 players available due to covid injuries and the seven day average fuels by omicron of 200,000 a day. could not come to a worst time because people are getting together and traveling. >> schools across the country are preparing for s...