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Results of this test. >> yes, it took -- i took it out 11 in the morning send it to the lab, and i don't know when it went to the lab, but i learned the sold by email around 8:30 this evening. and for people to effectively live their lives based on the results on the test, we will have to get those results much faster. >> i would hope so, but you know, this time of year, the lines overcrowded, the testing lines are very long and i suspect that the vaccinations and boosters are the same. and so, i do believe that during ordinary times it would not take as long. but because there are so many peo...

Country right now, you know, that's for somebody else to assess, i think, but it's been a struggle, and you know, the president now, he's just under 50 percentage points. i talked about the fact that a lot of the country seems to be getting their information from elsewhere and tuning him out. i'm not sure that having somebody else there speaking is going to reach those people in the andy slavitt role. perhaps depoliticizing and finding scientists, other voices could reach some of those people, but given the mistrust people have for all of government, for the cdc, i'm not sure that's the bigges...

Testing lines for the return to school, more than 1,000 teachers and staff were out. the teachers' union president telling the boston globe telling them most are covid related. number of cases have driven up covid hospitalizations 31% from last week, rates sharply increasing in florida, georgia, louisiana and maryland. new york city hospitalizations are surpassing peak numbers set last winter and with staffing shortages there is concern that some hospitals could be overrun and with more on that, my colleague, jeff flock is in philadelphia, jeff. >> that's right, jonathan. we are now at 100,000...

Which no one wants to do, or you try and get a situation where you can safely get people back, particularly to critical jobs, without having them be out for a full ten days. >> reporter: long testing lines are still snaking across the country. new cases are skyrocketing to numbers never seen before. deaths and hospitalizations, key indicators at this moment, are also climbing but not as quickly. >> are we seeing lower hospitalization rates because omicron is less virulent or are we seeing lower hospitalization rates because we do have a considerable amount of the population that is vaccinated?...

We know that death is a lagging indicator. unfortunately, we won't see the effects of omicron on death cases for another few weeks. but i know that i've even just seen in my own experience, testing lines in the new york city area are much, much shorter. my concern, though, is that while we're reaching the peak, how long will the plateau last, meaning that people will still be hospitalized. we still have about 15,000 people that have been hospitalized in new york state in the last few weeks. so those numbers are still quite high. and what's going to happen as omicron spreads across the country ...