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They are now out. they are all districted. so they have made a request from the department of health for more. i should also mention, poppy, that this isn't just a e testin site where we are. it's a vaccination site. it is much busier on the testing site than the vaccination part of it. that's why you're hearing a lot of local officials pushing people to get tested but also to get vaccinated and boosted. >> absolutely. leyla, thank you for the reporting. let's talk about this with dr. peter hotez, a professor and the dean of tropical medicine at the baylor college of medicine. thanks for joini...

2019, poppy. one woman said she was going to meet her grandson for the first time this weekend. it was worth all of the headache just to be able to hold him for the first time. poppy. >> i think clearly americans are making the calculations and a lot deciding to travel. n nadia, thank you. the surge of cases come pined with the holiday season led to a shortage of covid tests. in some lplaces, long lines. we have leyla san antontiago. >> reporter: the testing is taking place behind me right now. this is a 24-hour testing site. we when arrived this morning, it was wrapped around a large recrea...

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 ...

Major u.sair lines have called off. cruise lines with testing requirements. a small number of people on board tested positive for coronavirus and the ship was denied entry to two ports at caribbean islands. let's get to cnn's laeyla santiago at a testing site. what are you seeing this monday morning? >> reporter: well, kaitlan, we are at one of the busiest sites here in south florida. when we arrived around 4:00 in the morning, the library of cars already wrapped around what is a large recreational park here in miami-dade county. now, the operator of this testing site tells me compared to the ...

Aches, and scratchy throat since christmas, summoned the strength to head over to the city empty on wednesday morning to get tested. the clinic was dark. she wander off to find another testing site hoping she would not have to stand in line to meng in the cold. what it is just one of thousands if not millions of stories around the country. how worried are you about a possible tsunami and the closure that that brings? the ability to help the sick looking for help? >> chris, i am on service at bellevue hospital right now. and a number of our own staff are out sick. something like a third, i beli...