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Variant or before, we had a lot of -- proudly, texas had a lot of mass testing sites. and it was fairly easy to go get tested, we have all this land, it was easy. >> reporter: and now? >> it's two to three days in advance. we ordered a lot of home kits so we can do our staff so they don't have to run around the city trying to find them. but there's only so much you can do, they'll run out of those and then we'll be in the same boat. >> reporter: that testing situation only complicates this latest omicron wave. i spoke to one woman who went to a county testing site here in dallas because she th...

He is allowed five cues an hour. my staff downstairs. >> ainsley: brian, i thought you were working remotely according to the press. >> brian: turns out they reported all wrong, ainsley. right. but they did. so, lawrence we're going to work that out after because there is money in the rescue plan to get you money for these -- to satisfy your invoice. >> lawrence: exactly. >> brian: we will be talking about that over the next two hours. we have so much to report and big interview to announce tomorrow. first things first. >> lawrence: president biden continues to insist we are still in a pandemi...

>> bret: thoughts? >> yeah, i mean that raises this important question about whether or not we need to take a new look at the testing overall and what value there is any more of doing all of this testing, in particular, to allow people to goat into venues, et cetera. when it's not really catching all the people who are out there. it is driving a lot of panic, as bret mentioned, when you look at those numbers. the numbers that really should matter are those about how many people are actually going to the hospital with this and ending up on ventilators and questions like you were asking the cdc ...

He's going to learn a little bit more about the effort to try to direct resources to states right now and likely to be asking questions about the testing situation right now, the white house saying it wanted to provide 500 million tests to americans, but that contract to be signed in the course of the next couple weeks. it's likely that number 500 million tests will not be available this month. it may be a matter of marks. >> dr. gupta, let's talk about the cdc announcement shortening the time between the initial vaccination and the booster shot for pfizer. they've also agreed to expand booste...

Louisiana. so if you look at a heat map it is almost all the eastern half of the country right now and will change and start going down most likely in a couple weeks within the eastern half and then rarp up in the west. we need granular decisions how to operate. >> i just want to mention also the biden administration and the president committing to 500 million at-home tests into the public to help with the testing situation but not a time line on that. dr. peter hotez, thank you. it is great to talk to you this hour. >> thank you. also breaking news from capitol hill where the representative...